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Frontispiece—Caps and Capers. “NOW, GIRLS, COME ON! LET’S EAT OUR CREAM.” See p. 92.

CAPS and CAPERS

A Story of Boarding-School Life

by

Gabrielle E. Jackson

Author of “Pretty Polly Perkins,”

“Denise and Ned Toodles,” “By Love’s

Sweet Rule,” “The Colburn Prize,”

etc., etc.

With illustrations

by C. M. Relyea

PHILADELPHIA

HENRY ALTEMUS COMPANY

Copyright, 1901, by Henry Altemus

To

the dear girls of “Dwight School,”

who, by their sweet friendship,

have unconsciously

helped to make this winter

one of the

happiest she has ever known,

this little story is most

affectionately

inscribed

by the

AUTHOR.

Contents

CHAPTER PAGE

I. Which Shall It Be? 13

II. “A Touch Can Make or a Touch Can Mar” 21

III. “A Feeling of Sadness and Longing” 29

IV. New Experiences 41

V. Two Sides of a Question 53

VI. Dull and Prosy 63

VII. The P. U. L. 71

VIII. Caps and Capers 81

IX. A Modern Diogenes 89

X. “They Could Never Deceive Me” 97

XI. “La Somnambula” 107

XII. “Have You Not Been Deceived This Time?” 119

XIII. English as She is Spelled 127

XIV. “Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells” 135

XV. “Pride Goeth Before a Fall” 143

XVI. Letters 153

XVII. “Haf Anybody Seen My Umbrel?” 161

XVIII. The Little Hinge 169

XIX. “Fatal or Fated are Moments” 179

XX. “Now Tread We a Measure.” 187

XXI. Conspirators 197

XXII. “We’ve Got ’em! We’ve Got ’em!“ 205

XXIII. A Camera’s Capers. 213

XXIV. Whispers 225

XXV. “What Are You Doing Up this Time of Night?” 233

XXVI. “Love (and Schoolgirls) Laugh at Locksmiths” 243

XXVII. Ariadne’s Clue 253

XXVIII. “When Buds And Blossoms Burst” 261

XXIX. Commencement 271

XXX. “O Fortunate, O Happy Day” 279

Illustrations

PAGE

“Now, girls, come on! let’s eat our cream.” Frontispiece

“You could have popped me over from ambush.” 37

“Do you wish to join the P. U. L.?” 75

“Go, tell Mrs. Stone she isn’t up to snuff.” 115

“Sthick to yer horses, Moik.” 149

“Let us begin a brand new leaf to-day.” 175

“I feel so sort of grown up and grand.” 193

“An’ have ye been in there all this time?” 221

“Away went Marie, vanishing bit by bit.” 247

“Her hand resting lightly on the arm of her friend.” 285

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