Transcriber's note: Unusual and inconsistent spelling is as printed.

her cousin.]

GIRLS TOGETHER

BY AMY E. BLANCHARD

AUTHOR OF

"TWO GIRLS," "TWENTY LITTLE MAIDENS," ETC.

_ILLUSTRATED BY IDA WAUGH_

PHILADELPHIA J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY 1900

COPYRIGHT, 1895 BY J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY.

ELECTROTYPED AND PRINTED BY J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY, PHILADELPHIA, U.S.A.

TO

MY GIRLHOOD'S BELOVED COMPANION,

JENNIE E. S.,

THE GENTLE MISTRESS OF "POSIE-COSSIE,"

I Dedicate

THIS LITTLE BOOK, WITH A LOVE THAT

GROWS FROM YEAR TO YEAR.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

"As if I cared," returned Theo, turning her back to her cousin _Frontispiece._

She came in one afternoon, when all were sitting on the porch

Then, with a leap, she sprang away

Then she turned towards home

"The idea of chickens at this time of year," said Val

And the work proceeded with great briskness

GIRLS TOGETHER