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 DOROTHY
 ON A HOUSE-BOAT

 _By_

 EVELYN RAYMOND

 ILLUSTRATED

 New York

 THE PLATTE & PECK CO.




THE

DOROTHY BOOKS

By EVELYN RAYMOND


These stories of an American girl by an American author have made
"Dorothy" a household synonym for all that is fascinating. Truth and
realism are stamped on every page. The interest never flags, and is
ofttimes intense. No more happy choice can be made for gift books, so
sure are they to win approval and please not only the young in years,
but also "grown-ups" who are young in heart and spirit.

 Dorothy
 Dorothy at Skyrie
 Dorothy's Schooling
 Dorothy's Travels
 Dorothy's House Party
 Dorothy in California
 Dorothy on a Ranch
 Dorothy's House Boat
 Dorothy at Oak Knowe
 Dorothy's Triumph
 Dorothy's Tour

 _Illustrated, 12mo, Cloth
 Price per Volume, 50 Cents_

 COPYRIGHT, 1909, BY
 THE PLATT & PECK CO.




[Illustration: "EPHRAIM, DID YOU EVER LIVE IN A HOUSE-BOAT?"--P 15
_Dorothy's House-Boat_]




FOREWORD.


Those who have followed the story of Dorothy Calvert's life thus
far will remember that it has been full of interest and many
adventures--pleasant and otherwise. Beginning as a foundling left upon
the steps of a little house in Brown street, Baltimore, she was
adopted by its childless owners, a letter-carrier and his wife. When
his health failed she removed with them to the Highlands of the
Hudson. There followed her "Schooling" at a fashionable academy; her
vacation "Travels" in beautiful Nova Scotia; her "House Party" at the
home of her newly discovered great aunt, Mrs. Betty Calvert; their
winter together "In California"; a wonderful summer "On a Ranch" in
Colorado; and now the early autumn has found the old lady and the
girl once more in the ancestral home of the Calverts. Enjoying their
morning's mail in the pleasant library of old Bellvieu, they are both
astonished by the contents of one letter which offers for Dorothy's
acceptance the magnificent gift of a "House-Boat." What follows the
receipt of this letter is now to be told.




CONTENTS


 CHAPTER                                                    PAGE

       FOREWORD                                               9

    I. A BIG GIFT FOR A SMALL MAID                           11

   II. INVITATIONS TO A CRUISE OF LOVING KINDNESS            25

  III. THE DIFFICULTIES OF GETTING UNDER WAY                 44

   IV. MATTERS ARE SETTLED                                   62

    V. THE STORM AND WHAT FOLLOWED                           76

   VI. A MULE AND MELON TRANSACTION                          92

  VII. VISITORS                                             105

 VIII. THE COLONEL'S REVELATION                             121

   IX. FISH AND MONKEYS                                     138

    X. A MERE ANNE ARUNDEL GUST                             154

   XI. A MORNING CALL OF MONKEYS                            165

  XII. UNDER THE PERSIMMON TREE                             180

 XIII. WHAT LAY UNDER THE WALKING FERN