BOBBIE, GENERAL MANAGER BOBBIE GENERAL MANAGER _A NOVEL_ BY OLIVE HIGGINS PROUTY [Illustration] GROSSET & DUNLAP PUBLISHERS :: NEW YORK _Copyright, 1913, by_ FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY _All rights reserved including that of translation into foreign languages, including the Scandinavian._ _TENTH PRINTING_ [Illustration: _March, 1913_] TO THE MEMORY OF MY FATHER Bobbie, General Manager CHAPTER I I am a junior in the H.C.H.S., which stands for Hilton Classical High School, and am sixteen years old. I live in a big brown house at number 240 Main Street, and my father is a state senator in Boston. I am a member of the First Congregational Church, which I joined when I was thirteen, and am captain of the basket-ball team at the high school. I have travelled as far east as Revere Beach, as far west as the Hoosac Tunnel, on my way to Aunt Ella's funeral in Adams, and as far south as New London, Connecticut, where I watched my oldest brother Tom row in a perfectly stunning eight-oared boat-race on the Thames. I haven't been north at all. I have had six diseases, including scarlet fever and typhoid, with which I almost died last year, and as a result of which am now wearing my hair as short as a child with a Dutch-cut.