Chapter I: Front Matter

Beth’s Wonder-Winter

BOOKS BY MARION AMES TAGGART

THE SIX GIRLS SERIES

SIX GIRLS AND BOB. A Story of Patty Pans and Green
Fields. 330 pages.

SIX GIRLS AND THE TEA ROOM. A Story. 316 pages.

SIX GIRLS GROWING OLDER. A Story. 331 pages.

SIX GIRLS AND THE SEVENTH ONE. A Story. 358 pages.

BETTY GASTON, THE SEVENTH GIRL. A Story. 352 pages.

SIX GIRLS AND BETTY. A Story. 320 pages.

SIX GIRLS GROWN UP. A Story. 343 pages.

HER DAUGHTER JEAN. A Story. 336 pages.

BETH’S WONDER-WINTER. A Story. 352 pages.

Price, $1.25 each net

These volumes are attractively illustrated and
bound uniformly.

Beth’s Wonder-Winter

_A STORY_

By
MARION AMES TAGGART

_ILLUSTRATED BY_
WILLIAM F. STECHER

W. A. WILDE COMPANY
BOSTON CHICAGO

_Copyrighted, 1914_,
BY W. A. WILDE COMPANY
_All rights reserved_

BETH’S WONDER-WINTER

_Dedicated
to
Little Frances
with great love_

CONTENTS

I. WHEN THE MAIL CAME IN 11

II. WHEN THE TRAIN PULLED OUT 23

III. THE CHANGELING 38

IV. THE FAIRY-LAND CHILDREN 54

V. ALL SORTS OF NEW STEPS 69

VI. “THE ISLAND DAY” 84

VII. PILGRIMS AND STRANGERS 99

VIII. TANAGERS AND BLUEBIRDS 116

IX. AFOOT AND ON HORSEBACK 136

X. THE HOSPITAL ON THE HEIGHTS 155

XI. KRIS KRINGLE’S JINGLES 174

XII. THE HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS 194

XIII. “HOLLY AND JOLLY RHYME” 212

XIV. DIRK ENTERTAINS 232

XV. CHRYSALIS AND THE COUNTESS 251

XVI. THE SHROVE NIGHT MASQUE 271

XVII. THE RIDE DOWN THE QUIET ROAD 291

XVIII. “FLORIDA PASQUA” 310

XIX. THE WONDER-WINTER MELTS IN SPRING 328

ILLUSTRATIONS

PAGE

At every beat of his small hoofs she loved
him better (_Frontispiece_) 153

“Oh! good-bye, Aunt Rebecca” 29

Beth ran over to the gracious lady 49

“I’ve been waiting to show it to you” 233

The prince ... slipped a ring upon each hand 307

Beth’s Wonder-Winter