Front matter
Reading edition
“DO YOU KNOW, IT WAS LIKE A PIRATE’S SHIP”
LAUGHING LAST
BY
JANE ABBOTT
AUTHOR OF
HIGHACRES, KEINETH, RED ROBIN, Etc.
ILLUSTRATED BY
E. CORINNE PAULI
GROSSET & DUNLAP
PUBLISHERS NEW YORK
COPYRIGHT, 1924, BY J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY
TO
FRANCES STANTON SMITH
WHOSE LOYAL INTEREST IN MY WORK IS AN
UNFAILING HELP TO ME, I AFFECTIONATELY
DEDICATE THIS BOOK
CONTENTS
I The Egg
II Rebellion
III Pola Lifts a Curtain
IV Sidney Digs for Cousins
V The Summer Will Tell Who Laughs Last
VI Sunset Lane
VII When Dreams Come True
VIII Mr. Dugald Explains
IX Sidney Tells “Dorothea”
X Maids
XI Independence
XII Sidney Belongs
XIII Plots and Counterplots
XIV Words that Sing
XV Cap’n Phin
XVI Pola
XVII Peacocks
XVIII “Hook”
XIX The Gleam
XX “There’s Something Wrong”
XXI What the Night Held
XXII “You Need a Big Brother”
XXIII Diamonds
XXIV What the Day Held
XXV No One Laughs Last
ILLUSTRATIONS
“Do You Know, It was Like a Pirate’s Ship”
Her Eyes Fell Upon an Entry on Another Page
Captain Davies Drew a Letter from His Pocket and Tapped It with His Finger
She Spied Approaching Figures—Trude and Mr. Dugald, Walking Slowly