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Title: Lady Betty Across the Water

Editor: Charles Norris Williamson and Alice Muriel Williamson

Release Date: November 10, 2007 [eBook #23441]

Language: English

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LADY BETTY ACROSS THE WATER

[Illustration: "_I found myself chatting away with those cadets as
if I had grown up with them_"]

LADY BETTY ACROSS THE WATER

Edited by

C. N. & A. M. WILLIAMSON

Authors of My Friend the Chauffeur

Illustrations by Orson Lowell

[Illustration]

New York
McClure, Phillips & Co.
MCMVI

Copyright, 1906, by
McClure, Phillips & Co.

Published, May, 1906
Second Impression

Copyright, 1905, 1906, by The Curtis Publishing Company

_To
the people of that great, delightful, and hospitable
land which gave Lady Betty the time of her life
and inspiration, this story of her visit is admiringly
Dedicated by Betty Bulkeley
and C. N. and A. M. Williamson_

CONTENTS

CHAP. PAGE

I. ABOUT BEING BANISHED 3

II. ABOUT CROSSING THE WATER 20

III. ABOUT NEW YORK 50