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Title: The Corner House Girls at School

Author: Grace Brooks Hill

Illustrator: R. Emmett Owen

Release Date: April 11, 2007 [EBook #21034]

Language: English

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THE CORNER HOUSE GIRLS AT SCHOOL

BY GRACE BROOKS HILL

Author of "The Corner House Girls," "The Corner House Girls Under
Canvas," etc.

_ILLUSTRATED BY R. EMMETT OWEN_

GROSSET & DUNLAP
PUBLISHERS NEW YORK

Copyright, 1915
By BARSE & CO.

_Printed in the United States of America_

[Illustration: Agnes stooped lower and shot up the course, passing Trix
not three yards from the line.]

CONTENTS

I A Goat, Four Girls, and a Pig

II The White-headed Boy

III The Pig is Important

IV Neale O'Neil Gets Established

V Crackers--and a Toothache

VI Agnes Loses Her Temper and Dot Her Tooth

VII Neale in Disguise

VIII Introductions

IX Popocatepetl in Mischief

X The Ice Storm

XI The Skating Race

XII The Christmas Party

XIII The Barn Dance

XIV Uncle Rufus' Story of the Christmas Goose

XV Sadie Goronofsky's Bank

XVI A Quartette of "Lady Bountifuls"

XVII "That Circus Boy!"

XVIII Snowbound

XIX The Enchanted Castle

XX Trix Severn in Peril

XXI A Backyard Circus

XXII Mr. Sorber

XXIII Taming a Lion Tamer

XXIV Mr. Murphy Takes a Hand

XXV A Bright Future

THE CORNER HOUSE GIRLS AT SCHOOL

CHAPTER I

A GOAT, FOUR GIRLS, AND A PIG

When Sam Pinkney brought Billy Bumps over to the old Corner House, and
tied him by the corner of the woodshed, there was at once a family
conclave called. Sam was never known to be into anything but mischief;
therefore when he gravely presented the wise looking old goat to Tess,
suspicion wa