Chapter I: Front Matter

PEGGY FROM KERRY

BY

MRS. L. T. MEADE

AUTHOR OF “FOR DEAR DAD,” “THE GIRLS OF MERTON COLLEGE,” “KITTY
O’DONOVAN,” “OCEANA’S GIRLHOOD,” “A WILD IRISH GIRL,” ETC.

_WITH FOUR HALF-TONE ILLUSTRATIONS
BY MARTIN LEWIS_

NEW YORK
HURST & COMPANY
PUBLISHERS

Copyright, 1912,
BY
HURST & COMPANY

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CONTENTS.

CHAPTER PAGE
I. AT HOME 1

II. THE JOURNEY 10

III. AT PRESTON MANOR 16

IV. ADVENTURES AT FARMER ANDERSON’S 30

V. PEGGY LOST AND FOUND 42

VI. PEGGY’S ESCAPADE 55

VII. MARY WELSH TO THE RESCUE 69

VIII. PEGGY AND HER SCHOOL COMPANIONS 93

IX. THE IMP OF THE RED GABLES 109

X. THE HOWARD BEQUEST 125

XI. ADVENTURE IN THE HOCKEY-FIELD 135

XII. THE CULPRITS INTERVIEWED 153

XIII. PEGGY GOES TO THE UPPER SCHOOL 168

XIV. MRS. FLEMING’S TROUBLES 180

XV. THE CULPRITS IN COUNCIL 197

XVI. THE PRINCIPAL INTERROGATES 212

XVII. GRACE AND ANNE IN TROUBLE 225

XVIII. THE GIRLS AT PRESTON MANOR 242

XIX. “I’LL GIVE HER A CHANCE” 255

XX. RESTITUTION 274

XXI. PREPARING FOR THE COMPETITION 293

XXII. KITTY’S TREACHERY 306

XXIII. DISCOVERY AND FLIGHT 327

ILLUSTRATIONS

Molly and Jessie stole softly into the room to look at
her _Frontispiece_

PAGE
“That man, Peggy, is your father” 63

In an instant Peggy had sprung on his back and was
careering round and round the paddock 148

“Glory be!” answered Peggy; “you ask Kitty if she’d like
me to finish _that_ sentence” 243

PEGGY FROM KERRY.