Chapter I: Front Matter

FOUR GIRLS OF FORTY YEARS AGO

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THE LITTLE GIRL NEXT DOOR
WINIFRED’S NEIGHBORS
THE CHILDREN ON THE TOP FLOOR
HOW BARBARA KEPT HER PROMISE
LITTLE MISS ROSAMOND
PRISCILLA OF THE DOLL SHOP
BRAVE LITTLE PEGGY
THE OTHER SYLVIA
MAISIE’S MERRY CHRISTMAS
LITTLE QUEEN ESTHER
MAKING MARY LIZZIE HAPPY
A REAL CINDERELLA
NORA’S TWIN SISTER
FOUR GIRLS OF FORTY YEARS AGO

LOTHROP, LEE & SHEPARD CO.
BOSTON

Four Girls of Forty
Years Ago

BY
NINA RHOADES

_ILLUSTRATED BY_
ELEANOR R. WEEDEN

BOSTON
LOTHROP, LEE & SHEPARD CO.

Published, August, 1920

COPYRIGHT, 1920,
BY LOTHROP, LEE & SHEPARD CO.

_All Rights Reserved_

Four Girls of Forty Years Ago

Norwood Press
BERWICK & SMITH CO.
NORWOOD, MASS.
U. S. A.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. THE FOUR LITTLE WINSLOWS 9
II. A VISITOR 25
III. A WONDERFUL DAY 39
IV. THE SINGING LADY 54
V. MISS POLLY’S STORY 71
VI. PAUL 91
VII. THE STOLEN CHILD 104
VIII. THE HOUSE ON AVENUE A 119
IX. MISS POLLY’S PIANO 133
X. DULCIE’S BIRTHDAY 147
XI. PAUL ENTERTAINS MISS POLLY 164
XII. DAISY WRITES A LETTER 178
XIII. DECORATION DAY 193
XIV. MRS. WINSLOW GETS A TELEGRAM 214
XV. DULCIE TAKES THE HELM 228
XVI. LOOKING FOR A SITUATION 241
XVII. STEPMOTHERS 258
XVIII. A HOME-COMING 270

ILLUSTRATIONS

“I think you are the most wonderful person
I ever heard of” declared Dulcie
(Page 87) _Frontispiece_

FACING PAGE

The door swung open so quietly and easily that
she nearly fell over backward 62

“She’s got the big fellow down. She’s sittin’
on his head” 128

Daisy took the two letters, flew down-stairs, and
out into the street 190

“We’re--we’re looking for a situation” 258

“Do we say ‘How do you do, stepmother?’”
Maud wanted to know 274

Four Girls of Forty Years Ago