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Title: Tabitha at Ivy Hall

Author: Ruth Alberta Brown

Illustrator: Alfred Russell

Release Date: May 8, 2008 [EBook #25390]

Language: English

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[Illustration: She began her first letter to the father she did not know
or understand. (_Page 296._)]

TABITHA AT IVY HALL

BY
RUTH ALBERTA BROWN

ILLUSTRATIONS BY
ALFRED RUSSELL
c

THE SAALFIELD PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHICAGO AKRON, OHIO NEW YORK

_MADE IN U. S. A._

Copyright, 1911
by
THE SAALFIELD PUBLISHING COMPANY

To My Mother

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. THE HATEFUL NAME 11

II. TABITHA CHOOSES A NEW NAME 33

III. TABITHA ADOPTS HER NEW NAME 45

IV. THE NEW NAME CAUSES TABITHA TROUBLE 63

V. TABITHA IS COMFORTED 81

VI. A DOG AND A CAT 93

VII. THE NEW BOY 105

VIII. TABITHA BEGS PARDON 127

IX. A BRAVE LITTLE CATT 137

X. CARRIE GOES AWAY TO SCHOOL 155

XI. A FIRE IN THE NIGHT 171

XII. DR. VANE HAS A VISITOR 185

XIII. AUNT MARIA DECIDES THE QUESTION 201

XIV. TABITHA'S ROOM-MATE 221

XV. THE FIRST NIGHT AT IVY HALL 239

XVI. MADAME'S ADVICE 253

XVII. HOLIDAY PLANS 269

XVIII. TABITHA'S CHRISTMAS 283

XIX. A STRIKE! 299

XX. A HAPPY HOME 309

TABITHA AT IVY HALL

CHAPTER I

THE HATEFUL NAME

"She leaned far out on the window