$1.25 _net._ HOUGHTON BOSTON MIFFLIN [Illustration] AND COMPANY NEW YORK Transcriber Notes: Passages in italics were indicated by _underscores_. Small caps were replaced with ALL CAPS. Throughout the document, the oe ligature was replaced with "oe". Throughout the dialogues, there were words used to mimic accents of the speakers. Those words were retained as-is. Errors in punctuation and inconsistent hyphenation were not corrected unless otherwise noted. On page 115, "pippette" was replaced with "pipette". On page 135, "puplit" was replaced with "pulpit". On page 145, "gran'mon" was replaced with "gran'mom". On page 190, a quotation mark was added before "it is a debt". On page 261, "did n't" was replaced with "didn't". On page 298, a quotation mark was added before "There can't be." End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Katy Gaumer, by Elsie Singmaster