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Mistress Madcap (1937)
by Edith Bishop Sherman
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Mistress Madcap

"There be no use talking o' holidays this year," said Mehitable bitterly.

Young Moderns Bookshelf


Mistress Madcap

By
Edith Bishop Sherman


The Sun Dial Press, Inc.
New York

Copyright, 1925, by Doubleday, Page & Company. All rights reserved. Copyright, 1925, by Lamar & Barton, Nashville, Tennessee. Printed in the United States at the Country Life Press, Garden City, N. Y.

To
my own little maids
Elisabeth and Barbara

Contents

Chapter Page
I. Two Little Colonial Maids at Home 1
II. The Strange Guest 12
III. A Flight into the Newark Mountains 25
IV. Mehitable's Secret 36
V. Down the Cistern 48
VI. The Lost Passport 60
VII. Mehitable Walks into a Trap 71
VIII. The Tables Are Turned 83
IX. The Cabin in the Swamp 96
X. The Town by the River 106
XI. Pioneer Courage 117
XII. On Board the Sloop 131
XIII. Charity in New York Town 140
XIV. A Little Lone Traveler 148
XV. The "Long Room" 156
XVI. Miranda Briggs's Heroism 169
XVII. Storms 176
XVIII. The Inn Servant 187
XIX. The Red Cardinal 195
XX. A Fairy Tale 205
XXI. The Blow 215
XXII. At Tolliver's 230
XXIII. All's Well 237



This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published in 1925, before the cutoff of January 1, 1929.


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