r troublesome "'zaminations." At the study table on the last evening befo

hat's a 's

said Ruth

hild?" dem

utche

chuckled Neale, who was pre

it?" begged Tes

ly waking up. "That's a hard

ss, "that 'There was a b

hesitated. "That must mean a fancy vest

id!" admonished Ruth

me a thing. You're almost as mean as Trix Severn was to me to-day. I d

osity she could not quench. For, deep as the chasm had grow

ay to some girl she was with: 'There goes one of them now. They pushed their way into ou

yed indignation, so that when she did so, the ot

invitation she gave us to stay at her father'

t say you won't g

use unless we pay our way-be sure

to the shore, Ru

es

ll ask us again," murm

h, shortly. "I will hire one of the tents, if nothing else. And

rammar school; and although she was sorry to lose Miss Georgiana Shipman as a teacher, sh

clared, "just as soon as I get into high school next fall. I'm

Ruth. "Why! there are more girls in

'm so

"if you were only rolled out," for he wa

y," sighed Agnes. "Can't we have a

d her sedate sister.

er graduate from Grammar again. Couldn't we kill s

poor chickens done that they should be

Agnes. "You be good, or

ne of us would have eaten those particular frying chickens

n another coop. We hatched them in January and brought them up by hand.

onversation. "Teacher asked him to tell us two breeds of dairy cattle and which gi

Miss Andrews; and the co

en came the graduation of Agnes and Neale O'Neil from the grammar school. Ruth was

lways stood well in her classes. Ruth saw to that, for wh

touches to Agnes' dress before she started for school that last day. Miss Ann Titus, Milton's most famous seamstress and "gossi

r sharper. She well knew she had invited the Corner House girls to be her guests at Pleasant Cove; but she did

ad forced the invitation from her in a moment of weakness. If she had to number them of her

ough train was put on by the railroad from Milton to Pleasant C

e day before, for on this Friday morning the Corner House girls had little time

dog that had taken up his abode at the Corner House so stra

Dot, seizing the dog on the other side. "We

best care ever, won't you,

agreed the ol

him with us, Ru

a tent in the colony as soon as they reached Pleasant Cove. Tom Jonah was just the s

filled her uncle's bungalow with guests or not. Of one thing Ruth was sure: if they went to the Ove

et in and drive away with a rather depressed air. Dot and Tess waved their hand

e cars already. Trix Severn was very much in evidence. The Kenway sisters saw the other girls who were

e knew the sisters were there, but Ruth believed that the mean-spirited gi

laimed a voice suddenly be

just been looking for you everywhere," pursued Pearl. "Here it is the last minute, and y

nt us?" queried Ruth, with

Pearl. "But I was afraid you h

ggars for an invitation from somebody," she said, loudly enough for all the girls nearby to hear. "