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Title: Ruby at School

Author: Minnie E. Paull

Release Date: January 5, 2010 [EBook #30860]

Language: English

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[Frontispiece: "SHE FILLED HER APRON WITH THE CRISP, FRESH COOKIES."]

RUBY AT SCHOOL

The Third Volume of the Ruby Series

BY

MINNIE E. PAULL

AUTHOR OF "RUTH AND RUBY," "RUBY'S UPS AND DOWNS,"
"PRINCE DIMPLE SERIES," "DOROTHY DARLING," ETC.

BOSTON

ESTES AND LAURIAT

PUBLISHERS

Copyright, 1894,

BY ESTES AND LAURIAT.

University Press:

JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

CHAPTER

I. RUBY IN MISCHIEF
II. CARRYING OUT HER PLAN
III. LOOKING FOR RUBY
IV. CONSEQUENCES
V. BOARDING-SCHOOL
VI. PREPARATIONS
VII. MORE PREPARATIONS
VIII. READY
IX. THE JOURNEY
X. MAKING FRIENDS
XI. AN OLD ACQUAINTANCE
XII. MAKING ACQUAINTANCE
XIII. GETTING SETTLED
XIV. SCHOOL
XV. BEGINNING SCHOOL
XVI. MAUDE'S TROUBLES
XVII. LEARNING
XVIII. MISADVENTURES
XIX. SURPRISES
XX. PERSIMMONS
XXI. MAUDE
XXII. SUNDAY AT SCHOOL
XXIII. GETTING READY FOR CHRISTMAS
XXIV. FINIS

ILLUSTRATIONS.

"SHE FILLED HER APRON WITH THE CRISP, FRESH COOKIES" . . .
_Frontispiece_

RUBY AND HER MOTHER (missing from book)

RUBY MEETING MAUDE AT THE STATION (missing)

RUBY WRITING A LETTER HOME

"MRS. BOARDMAN WAS VERY PATIENT WITH THE SPOILED CHILD" (missing)

MISS KETCHUM AND THE CATERPILLARS (missing)

"OH, IT HAS DONE SOMETHING TO MY MOUTH!" (missing)

READING THE INVITATION TO AGNES (missing)

RUBY AT SCHOOL.

CHAPTER I.

RUBY IN MISCHIEF.

It does seem quite too bad to begin a new Ruby bo