Judy of York Hill

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JUDY OF YORK HILL

by

ETHEL HUME

With Illustrations by Harold Cue

[Illustration: PILLOWS WERE SORTED OUT, AND NANCY WITH THE TINY LIGHT
LED THE WAY (_page_ 59)]

[Illustration]

Boston and New York
Houghton Mifflin Company
The Riverside Press Cambridge

1922

Copyright, 1922, by Ethel Hume Bennett
All Rights Reserved

The Riverside Press
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Printed in the U.S.A.

           AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED
                TO YOU WHO IN
            THE OLD SCHOOL LEARNED

        _"To set the cause above renown,
          To love the game beyond the prize,
          To honour, while you strike him down,
          The foe that comes with fearless eyes;
          To count the life of battle good,
          And dear the land that gave you birth,
          And dearer yet the brotherhood
          That binds the brave of all the earth._

        .     .     .     .     .     .     .

         _To-day and here the fight's begun
          Of the great fellowship you're free;
          Henceforth the School and you are one,
          And what You are, the race shall be."_

                                    HENRY NEWBOLT

CONTENTS

           I. BEGINNINGS                           3

          II. IMPORTANT THINGS                    21

         III. DRESSING UP                         37

          IV. A SUPPER PARTY                      47

           V. "ENOUGH IS AS GOOD AS A FEAST"      54

          VI. PUTTING IT THROUGH                  65

         VII. CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS                  87

        VIII. CASTLES IN THE AIR                 100

          IX. THE ANONYMOUS LETTER               115

           X. JUDITH PLAYS DETECTIVE             133

          XI. FRIENDS                            148

         XII. EASTER HOLIDAYS                    169

        XIII. THE MESSENGER                      186

         XIV. JUDITH WINS THE TENNIS CUP         203

          XV. JUNE SHOWERS                       218

         XVI. A TOAST TO THE SCHOOL              239

        XVII. PRIZE-GIVING                       259

ILLUSTRATIONS

  PILLOWS WERE SORTED OUT, AND NANCY WITH THE TINY LIGHT
    LED THE WAY                                         _Frontispiece_

  JUDITH WAS TUCKED UP IN A FUR ROBE IN THE CUTTER AND
    OFF THEY WENT                                             102

  JUDITH HAD TO HEAR EVERY SINGLE THING THAT HAD HAPPENED
    TO NANCY SINCE THEY PARTED                                182

  THEN CURIOSITY URGED HER TO OPEN THE LITTLE WHITE BOX       248