Polly Oliver's Problem

About this eBook

Author

Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith, 1856-1923

Credits

E-text prepared by Al Haines

Language

English

LoC Class

PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres

Subject

Boardinghouses -- Juvenile fiction

Category

Text

eBook-No.

15630

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/15630

Release Date

April 15, 2005

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Polly Oliver's Problem — by
2. 2.Kate Douglas Wiggin — With a Biographical Sketch, Portrait, and Illustrations — Boston, New York, and Chicago Houghton, Mifflin & Company The Riverside Press, Cambridge — 1896
3. 3.KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN.
4. 4.POLLY OLIVER'S PROBLEM — A STORY FOR GIRLS
5. 5.CONTENTS — ILLUSTRATIONS — PORTRAIT OF MRS. WIGGIN . . . . . . . . . Frontispiece — MRS. OLIVER AND POLLY — "IT IS SOME OF THE STUDENTS" — "SHE OPENED THE BOOK AND READ" — POLLY OLIVER'S PROBLEM.
6. 6.CHAPTER I. — A DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE.
7. 7.CHAPTER II. — FORECASTING THE FUTURE.
8. 8.CHAPTER III — THE DOCTOR GIVES POLLY A PRESCRIPTION.
9. 9.CHAPTER IV. — THE BOARDERS STAY, AND THE OLIVERS GO.
10. 10.CHAPTER V. — TOLD IN LETTERS.
11. 11.CHAPTER VI. — POLLY TRIES A LITTLE MISSIONARY WORK.
12. 12.CHAPTER VII. — "WHERE IGNORANCE IS BLISS."
13. 13.CHAPTER VIII. — TWO FIRESIDE CHATS.
14. 14.CHAPTER IX. — HARD TIMES.
15. 15.CHAPTER X. — EDGAR GOES TO CONFESSION.
16. 16.CHAPTER XI. — THE LADY IN BLACK.
17. 17.CHAPTER XII. — THE GREAT SILENCE.
18. 18.CHAPTER XIII. — A GARDEN FLOWER, OR A BANIAN-TREE.
19. 19.CHAPTER XIV. — EDGAR DISCOURSES OF SCARLET RUNNERS.
20. 20.CHAPTER XV. — LIFE IN THE BIRDS' NEST.
21. 21.CHAPTER XVI — THE CANDLE CALLED PATIENCE.
22. 22.CHAPTER XVII. — POLLY LAUNCHES HER SHIPS.
23. 23.CHAPTER XVIII. — THE CHILDREN'S HOUR: REPORTED IN A LETTER BY AN EYE-WITNESS.

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