Elizabeth Enright
Reading edition
Illustrated by Beth and Joe Krush
HARCOURT, BRACE & WORLD, INC., NEW YORK
1961 by Elizabeth Enright
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any mechanical means, including mimeograph and tape recorder, without permission in writing from the publisher. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 61-6113 Printed in the United States of America First edition
BY THE SAME AUTHOR
Gone-Away Lake
(published by Harcourt, Brace & World)
The Four-Story Mistake
The Melendy Family (containing The Saturdays, The Four-Story Mistake, and Then There Were Five)
The Saturdays
Spiderweb for Two
Then There Were Five
Thimble Summer
The Sea Is All Around
(published by Holt, Rinehart and Winston)
For Peter Montgomery Benton and his sister Gata