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  SIX GIRLS AND BOB

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  BOOKS BY MARION AMES TAGGART

  THE SIX GIRLS SERIES

  SIX GIRLS AND BOB. A Story of Patty-Pans and Green Fields. 330 pages.

  SIX GIRLS AND THE TEA ROOM. A Story. 316 pages.

  SIX GIRLS GROWING OLDER. A Story. 331 Pages.

  SIX GIRLS AND THE SEVENTH ONE. A Story. 358 pages.

  BETTY GASTON, THE SEVENTH GIRL. A Story. 352 pages.

  SIX GIRLS AND BETTY. A Story. 320 pages.

  SIX GIRLS GROWN UP. A Story. 343 pages.

  These volumes are attractively illustrated and bound uniformly. Price, $1.50 each.

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  "THIS SUNNY LITTLE MAIDEN WAS BENDING ABSORBED OVER THEGAS RANGE"]

  SIX GIRLS AND BOB

  A Story of Patty-Pans and Green Fields

  by

  MARION AMES TAGGART

  Author of "The Little Grey House," "TheWyndham Girls," "Miss Lochinvar," etc.

  Illustrated by William F. Stecher

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  W. A. Wilde CompanyBoston Chicago

  Copyright, 1906By W. A. Wilde Company

  All rights reserved

  SIX GIRLS AND BOB

  _To Gertrude In Loving Remembrance_

  CONTENTS

  CHAPTER PAGE

  I. THE FOURTH FLOOR, EAST 11

  II. FIRE, AND OTHER ESCAPES 27

  III. KEREN-HAPPUCH, THE FIRST 43

  IV. AN ANGEL IN DISGUISE 58

  V. TAKING POSSESSION 75

  VI. MAKING THE BEST OF IT 91

  VII. THE DOVE'S ALIGHTING 105

  VIII. GRETTA 121

  IX. JUNE'S PERFECT DAYS 135

  X. HAPPIE'S TEMPTATION 151

  XI. HAPPIE'S CHOICE 167

  XII. LAURA'S PHILANTHROPY 184

  XIII. HUMILITY, CALVES AND GINGER POP 202

  XIV. AN ARK ADRIFT? 217

  XV. THE PROMISE OF THE GREEN BRANCH 234

  XVI. A PRANK---- 251

  XVII. AND ITS CONSEQUENCES 267

  XVIII. THE BITTENBENDER TRUNK 282

  XIX. DISPOSSESSION AND POSSESSION 298

  XX. AT THE SUBSIDENCE OF THE WATERS 315

  ILLUSTRATIONS

  PAGE

  "THIS SUNNY LITTLE MAIDEN WAS BENDING ABSORBED OVER THE GAS RANGE" _Frontispiece_ 14

  "'HOW DO YOU DO, MARGERY?'" 51

  "'CAN'T YOU EVER COME TO SEE ME?'" 129

  "HE FOLLOWED LAURA TO THE FRONT DOOR" 191

  "THE GIRLS CROWDED AROUND TO SEE WHAT WAS REVEALED" 290

  SIX GIRLS AND BOB