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Title: Two girls of old New Jersey : a school-girl story of '76
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Sage, Agnes Carr Connah, Douglas John
Subjects: New Jersey--Fiction.
Publisher: New York : Frederick A. Stokes Company
Contributing Library: Rutgers University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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a second father, too,has thy parent been to me, and already I love this new world ofmy adoption and would lay down my life for her, rather than forGeorge the Third. ** Good ! And like brothers the boys clasped palms. Butyou must not leave the bouwerie until I am at home to stay. Everything is in such an upstir, it might be wiser for thechildren to remain with us this winter, suggested Heer VanGuilder, when the goldenrod was again bordering the roadside;but his gude vrouw did not agree. No, said she. This is their study age and, in truth, I be-lieve they will be safer in Trenton and Princeton than here, withmarauders riding over the country and we only protected fromthe British at New York by Fort Washington and Fort Constitu-tion yonder. Well, have thy way, then, coincided the easy-going farmer. Since, too, I cannot enter the city, continued the dame, Ishall send a note to Miss Minerva Burnham and request that shepurchase for our daughter the thick, warm cloak which she somuch needs.
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PANTINC. AND KXHAISTED, SHE BURIEO ilKK FACE IN HERhands—/(/■V 91 THE RED CAMLET CLOAK 89 So, with the fall of the leaf, Katrina and Jan returned to theirrespective halls of learning, but found both school and collegegreatly reduced in numbers. Kitty Clyde was gene, but Tenijjewas there and Susan Boudinot, while Prudence and Tabitha stillcame each day. Caroline Cox, however, declared her lessondays were over and had bloomed out into an extremely dressyyoung lady with an enormous hoop skirt and her hair piled up afoot above her head, powdered and adorned with feathers andaigrets. Often, too, laughed Tibby, when I visit her, she persuadethme to try on her gowns, on the sly, and let her put up my curlymop in modish style. It is rare fun, but if Aunt Peace andAunt Mercy could see me, they would swoon away on the spot. Long before this. Lieutenant Asgill had gone to join his regi-ment at New York, but several other British officers still lingeredin Trenton and, among these, Katrina rec

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