Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 47655-h.htm or 47655-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/47655/47655-h/47655-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/47655/47655-h.zip) SIX GIRLS AND BOB * * * * * * BOOKS BY MARION AMES TAGGART THE SIX GIRLS SERIES SIX GIRLS AND BOB. A Story of Patty-Pans and Green Fields. 330 pages. SIX GIRLS AND THE TEA ROOM. A Story. 316 pages. SIX GIRLS GROWING OLDER. A Story. 331 Pages. SIX GIRLS AND THE SEVENTH ONE. A Story. 358 pages. BETTY GASTON, THE SEVENTH GIRL. A Story. 352 pages. SIX GIRLS AND BETTY. A Story. 320 pages. SIX GIRLS GROWN UP. A Story. 343 pages. These volumes are attractively illustrated and bound uniformly. Price, $1.50 each. * * * * * * [Illustration: "THIS SUNNY LITTLE MAIDEN WAS BENDING ABSORBED OVER THE GAS RANGE"] SIX GIRLS AND BOB A Story of Patty-Pans and Green Fields by MARION AMES TAGGART Author of "The Little Grey House," "The Wyndham Girls," "Miss Lochinvar," etc. Illustrated by William F. Stecher [Illustration: logo] W. A. Wilde Company Boston Chicago Copyright, 1906 By W. A. Wilde Company All rights reserved SIX GIRLS AND BOB _To Gertrude In Loving Remembrance_ CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. THE FOURTH FLOOR, EAST 11 II. FIRE, AND OTHER ESCAPES 27 III. KEREN-HAPPUCH, THE FIRST 43 IV. AN ANGEL IN DISGUISE 58 V. TAKING POSSESSION 75 VI. MAKING THE BEST OF IT 91 VII. THE DOVE'S ALIGHTING 105 VIII. GRETTA 121 IX. JUNE'S PERFECT DAYS 135 X. HAPPIE'S TEMPTATION 151 XI. HAPPIE'S CHOICE 167 XII. LAURA'S PHILANTHROPY 184 XIII. HUMILITY, CALVES AND GINGER POP 202 XIV. AN ARK ADRIFT? 217 XV. THE PROMISE OF THE GREEN BRANCH 234 XVI. A PRANK---- 251 XVII. AND ITS CONSEQUENCES 267 XVIII. THE BITTENBENDER TRUNK 282 XIX. DISPOSSESSION AND POSSESSION 298 XX. AT THE SUBSIDENCE OF THE WATERS 315 ILLUSTRATIONS