Chapter I: Front Matter

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CAPS AND CAPERS

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CAPS and CAPERS A Story of Boarding-School Life

by GABRIELLE E. JACKSON

Author of "Pretty Polly Perkins," "Denise and Ned Toodles," "By Love's Sweet Rule," "The Colburn Prize," etc., etc.

With illustrations by C. M. Relyea

PHILADELPHIA HENRY ALTEMUS COMPANY

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Copyright, 1901, by Henry Altemus

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To the dear girls of "Dwight School," who, by their sweet friendship, have unconsciously helped to make this winter one of the happiest she has ever known, this little story is most affectionately inscribed by the AUTHOR.

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CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I. Which Shall It Be? 13
II. "A Touch Can Make or a Touch Can Mar" 21
III. "A Feeling of Sadness and Longing" 29
IV. New Experiences 41
V. Two Sides of a Question 53
VI. Dull and Prosy 63
VII. The P. U. L. 71
VIII. Caps and Capers 81
IX. A Modern Diogenes 89
X. "They Could Never Deceive Me" 97
XI. "La Somnambula" 107
XII. "Have You Not Been Deceived This Time?" 119
XIII. English as She is Spelled 127
XIV. "Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells" 135
XV. "Pride Goeth Before a Fall" 143
XVI. Letters 153
XVII. "Haf Anybody Seen My Umbrel?" 161
XVIII. The Little Hinge 169
XIX. "Fatal or Fated are Moments" 179
XX. "Now Tread We a Measure." 187
XXI. Conspirators 197
XXII. "We've Got 'em! We've Got 'em!" 205
XXIII. A Camera's Capers. 213
XXIV. Whispers 225
XXV. "What Are You Doing Up this Time of Night?" 233
XXVI. "Love (and Schoolgirls) Laugh at Locksmiths" 243
XXVII. Ariadne's Clue 253
XXVIII. "When Buds And Blossoms Burst" 261
XXIX. Commencement 271
XXX. "O Fortunate, O Happy Day" 279

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ILLUSTRATIONS

PAGE "Now, girls, come on! let's eat our cream." Frontispiece "You could have popped me over from ambush." 37 "Do you wish to join the P. U. L.?" 71 "Go, tell Mrs. Stone she isn't up to snuff." 109 "Sthick to yer horses, Moik." 141 "Let us begin a brand new leaf to-day." 165 "I feel so sort of grown up and grand." 181 "An' have ye been in there all this time?" 207 "Away went Marie, vanishing bit by bit." 231 "Her hand resting lightly on the arm of her friend." 267

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