DOROTHY
ON A HOUSE-BOAT
By
EVELYN RAYMOND
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ILLUSTRATED
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New York
THE PLATTE & PECK CO.
THE
DOROTHY BOOKS
By EVELYN RAYMOND
These stories of an American girl by an American author have made“Dorothy” a household synonym for all that is fascinating. Truth andrealism are stamped on every page. The interest never flags, and isofttimes intense. No more happy choice can be made for gift books, sosure are they to win approval and please not only the young in years,but also “grown-ups” who are young in heart and spirit.
Dorothy
Dorothy at Skyrie
Dorothy’s Schooling
Dorothy’s Travels
Dorothy’s House Party
Dorothy in California
Dorothy on a Ranch
Dorothy’s House-Boat
Dorothy at Oak Knowe
Dorothy’s Triumph
Dorothy’s Tour
Illustrated, 12mo, Cloth
Price per Volume, 50 Cents
Copyright, 1909, by
The Platt & Peck Co.
“EPHRAIM, DID YOU EVER LIVE IN A HOUSE-BOAT?”—P 15Dorothy’s House-BoatFOREWORD.
Those who have followed the story of Dorothy Calvert’s life thus farwill remember that it has been full of interest and manyadventures—pleasant and otherwise. Beginning as a foundling left uponthe steps of a little house in Brown street, Baltimore, she wasadopted by its childless owners, a letter-carrier and his wife. Whenhis health failed she removed with them to the Highlands of theHudson. There followed her “Schooling” at a fashionable academy; hervacation “Travels” in beautiful Nova Scotia; her “House Party” at thehome of her newly discovered great aunt, Mrs. Betty Calvert; theirwinter together “In California”; a wonderful summer “On a Ranch” inColorado; and now the early autumn has found the old lady and the girlonce more in the ancestral home of the Calverts. Enjoying theirmorning’s mail in the pleasant library of old Bellvieu, they are bothastonished by the contents of one letter which offers for Dorothy’sacceptance the magnificent gift of a “House-Boat.” What follows thereceipt of this letter is now to be told.
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