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Title: Hollowmell
or, A Schoolgirl's Mission

Author: E.R. Burden

Release Date: June 3, 2007 [EBook #21667]

Language: English

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HOLLOWMELL:

OR,

A SCHOOLGIRL'S MISSION.

BY

E. R. Burden.

GLASGOW:
JOHN S. MARR & SONS,
51 DUNDAS STREET.
1881.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER PAGE

I. MINNIE'S PLAN 5

II. ITS DEVELOPMENT 19

III. PREPARATIONS 29

IV. THE FIRST ESSAY 44

V. AT THE ELEVENTH HOUR 54

VI. A DISPUTE SETTLED 78

VII. MONA'S DEFEAT 94

VIII. A SUCCESS 115

IX. THE END 121

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HOLLOWMELL: OR, A SCHOOLGIRL'S MISSION.

CHAPTER I.

MINNIE'S PLAN.

"Why, wherever _can_ my books be?" exclaimed Minnie Kimberley in a vexed
tone, as she hunted up and down the schoolroom, opening now one
cupboard, then another, now a desk, and again diving down to peer under
some out-of-the-way table or form; for places which one would think the
most unlikely, were certain to be the places where Minnie's books would
at length be discovered.

"I can't make it out," she continued, her bright face clouded over with
vexation, "somehow or other my books always _do_ manage to get lost."

"Perhaps if you could manage to put them back in your desk when you had
done with them, instead of leaving the