CHAPTER VIII. HALLOWEEN
CHAPTER IX. WINTER NIGHTS AND WINTER DAYS.
CHAPTER X. RUTH'S RESPONSIBILITY.
CHAPTER XI. BARBARA'S BUZZ.
CHAPTER XII. EMERGENCIES.



WE GIRLS: A HOME STORY.




CHAPTER I.

THE STORY BEGINS.


It begins right in the middle; but a story must begin somewhere.

The town is down below the hill.

It lies in the hollow, and stretches on till it runs against another
hill, over opposite; up which it goes a little way before it can stop
itself, just as it does on this side.

It is no matter for the name of the town. It is a good, large
country town,--in fact, it has some time since come under city
regulations,--thinking sufficiently well of itself, and, for that
which it lacks, only twenty miles from the metropolis.