“Good-bye, Baltie, dear”
Three Little Women, A Story for Girls
Gabrielle E. Jackson
1913
CONTENTS
- CHAPTER I—The Carruths
- CHAPTER II—“Baltie”
- CHAPTER III—The Spirit of Mad Anthony
- CHAPTER IV—Baltie is Rescued
- CHAPTER V—A New Member of the Family
- CHAPTER VI—Blue Monday
- CHAPTER VII—Mammy Generalissimo
- CHAPTER VIII—Chemical Experiments
- CHAPTER IX—Spontaneous Combustion
- CHAPTER X—Readjustment
- CHAPTER XI—First Ventures
- CHAPTER XII—Another Shoulder is Added
- CHAPTER XIII—The Battle of Town and Gown
- CHAPTER XIV—The Candy Enterprise Grows
- CHAPTER XV—The Reckoning
- CHAPTER XVI—United We Stand, Divided We Fall
- CHAPTER XVII—A Family Council
- CHAPTER XVIII—“Save Me From My Friends”
- CHAPTER XIX—“An Auction Extraordinary”
- CHAPTER XX—Constance B.’s Venture
- CHAPTER XXI—Constance B.’s Candies
- CHAPTER XXII—First Steps
- CHAPTER XXIII—Opening Day
- CHAPTER XXIV—One Month Later
CHAPTER I—The Carruths
The afternoon was a wild one. All day driving sheets of rain had swept along the streets of Riveredge, hurled against windowpanes by fierce gusts of wind, or dashed in miniature rivers across piazzas. At noon it seemed as though the wind meant to change to the westward and the clouds break, but the promise of better weather had failed, and although the rain now fell only fitfully in drenching showers, and one could “run between the drops” the wind still blustered and fumed, t
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