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Title: Hildegarde's Holiday
a story for girls

Author: Laura E. Richards

Illustrator: Josephine Bruce

Release Date: March 13, 2008 [EBook #24826]

Language: English

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HILDEGARDE'S HOLIDAY

THE

HILDEGARDE-MARGARET SERIES

By Laura E. Richards

Each large 12mo, cloth decorative, illustrated, per volume, $1.75

Queen Hildegarde
Hildegarde's Holiday
Hildegarde's Home
Hildegarde's Neighbors
Hildegarde's Harvest
Three Margarets
Margaret Montfort
Peggy
Rita
Fernley House
The Merryweathers

_The above eleven volumes boxed as a set, $19.25_

L. C. PAGE & COMPANY
53 Beacon Street, Boston, Mass.

[Illustration: "'DO TELL US ABOUT HER, PLEASE!'"]

THE HILDEGARDE SERIES

Hildegarde's Holiday

A STORY FOR GIRLS

BY

LAURA E. RICHARDS

Author of

"The Margaret Series," "The Hildegarde Series,"
"Captain January," "Melody," "Five
Minute Stories," etc.

ILLUSTRATED

[Illustration]

THE PAGE COMPANY

BOSTON PUBLISHERS

_Copyright, 1891_
BY ESTES AND LAURIAT

Made in U. S. A.

Twenty-fourth Impression, May, 1927
Twenty-fifth Impression, January, 1930

THE COLONIAL PRESS
C. H. SIMONDS CO., BOSTON, U. S. A.

_To H. R._

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER PAGE

I. INTRODUCTORY 11

II. MISS WEALTHY 20

III. THE ORCHARD 34

IV. THE DOCTORS 53

V. ON THE RIVER 74

VI. A MORNING DRIVE 94

VII. A "STORY EVENING" 126

VIII. FLOWER-DAY 151

IX. BROKEN FLOWERS 178