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Chapters (72)
  1. Front Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. THE FIRST YEAR
  6. CHAPTER 1
  7. CHAPTER 2
  8. CHAPTER 3
  9. CHAPTER 4
  10. CHAPTER 5
  11. CHAPTER 6
  12. CHAPTER 7
  13. CHAPTER 8
  14. CHAPTER 9
  15. CHAPTER 10
  16. CHAPTER 11
  17. CHAPTER 12
  18. THE SECOND YEAR
  19. CHAPTER 13
  20. CHAPTER 14
  21. CHAPTER 15
  22. CHAPTER 16
  23. CHAPTER 17
  24. CHAPTER 18
  25. CHAPTER 19
  26. CHAPTER 20
  27. CHAPTER 21
  28. CHAPTER 22
  29. THE THIRD YEAR
  30. CHAPTER 23
  31. CHAPTER 24
  32. CHAPTER 25
  33. CHAPTER 26
  34. THE FOURTH YEAR
  35. CHAPTER 27
  36. CHAPTER 28
  37. CHAPTER 29
  38. CHAPTER 30
  39. CHAPTER 31
  40. CHAPTER 32
  41. THE FIFTH YEAR
  42. CHAPTER 33
  43. CHAPTER 34
  44. THE SIXTH YEAR
  45. CHAPTER 35
  46. CHAPTER 36
  47. CHAPTER 37
  48. THE SEVENTH YEAR
  49. CHAPTER 38
  50. CHAPTER 39
  51. CHAPTER 40
  52. CHAPTER 41
  53. CHAPTER 42
  54. CHAPTER 43
  55. THE EIGHTH YEAR
  56. CHAPTER 44
  57. CHAPTER 45
  58. CHAPTER 46
  59. THE NINTH YEAR
  60. CHAPTER 47
  61. CHAPTER 48
  62. THE TENTH YEAR
  63. CHAPTER 49
  64. CHAPTER 50
  65. CHAPTER 51
  66. CHAPTER 52
  67. THE ELEVENTH YEAR
  68. CHAPTER 53
  69. CHAPTER 54
  70. CHAPTER 55
  71. About the Author
  72. Back Cover

“I do wish you’d come home this summer, Jingle. If you don’t soon come Pat will up and marry that horrid David Kirk. I know she will. It’s really mysterious the influence that man has gained over her. It’s David this and David that…she’s always quoting him. So far as I can see he doesn’t do anything but talk to her…and he can talk. The creature is abominably clever.”

Hilary sighed. Perhaps he should have gone to the Island last summer. But he was working his way through college…for accept help from the mother who had neglected him all his life he would not…and summer visits home…to Hilary “home” meant Silver Bush…could not be squeezed into his budget.

CHAPTER 24

The first day of November came when Judy must pack. It was mild and calm and sunny but there had been hard frost the night before, for the first time, and the garden had suffered. Pat hated to look at her flowers. The nasturtiums were positively indecent. She realized that the summer was over at last.

Judy’s trunk was in the middle of the kitchen floor. Pat helped her pack. “Don’t forget the black bottle, Judy,” Sid said slyly as he passed. Judy ignored this but she brought down her book of Useful Knowledge.

“I must be taking this, Patsy. There do be a lot av ettiket hints in it. Or do ye be thinking they’re a trifle out av date? The book is by way av being a bit ouldish. I wudn’t want me cousins in Ireland to be thinking I didn’t know the latest rules. And, Patsy darlint, I’m taking me ould dress-up dress as well as the new one. I did be always loving that dress. The new one is rale fine but I haven’t been wearing it long enough to fale acquainted wid it. Do ye rimimber how ye always hated to give up any av yer ould clothes, Patsy? And, Patsy dear, here’s the kay av me blue chist. I’m wanting ye to kape it for me whin I’m gone and if innything but good shud be happening to me over there…not that I’m thinking it will…ye’ll be finding me bit av a will in the baking powder can in the till.”

“Judy, just imagine it…this time next week you’ll be in the middle of the Atlantic.”