[Illustration: The quick eye of Janice Day caught sight of this row of nondescripts. (See page 15.)]

JANICE DAY

BY

HELEN BEECHER LONG

ILLUSTRATED BY

WALTER S. ROGERS

GROSSET & DUNLAP PUBLISHERS :-: NEW YORK

COPYRIGHT, 1914, BY

SULLY AND KLEINTEICH

All rights reserved

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. A NEW-FASHIONED GIRL 1

II. POKETOWN 10

III. "IT JEST RATTLES" 22

IV. FIRST IMPRESSIONS 32

V. 'RILL SCATTERGOOD AND HER SCHOOL 43

VI. AN AFTERNOON OF ADVENTURE 56

VII. THE LITTLE GIRL WHO LOST THE ECHO 64

VIII. A BIT OF ROMANCE 73

IX. TEA, AND A TALK WITH DADDY 84

X. BEGINNING WITH A BEDSTEAD 96

XI. A RAINY DAY 109

XII. ON THE ROAD WITH WALKY DEXTER 122

XIII. NELSON HALEY 131

XIV. A TIME OF TRIAL 139

XV. NEW BEGINNINGS 149

XVI. "SHOWING" THE ELDER 159

XVII. CHRISTMAS NEWS 173

XVIII. "THE FLY-BY-NIGHT" 184

XIX. CHRISTMAS, AFTER ALL! 197

XX. THE TROUBLE WITH NELSON HALEY 210

XXI. A STIR OF NEW LIFE IN POKETOWN 217

XXII. AT THE SUGAR CAMP 226

XXIII. "DO YOU MEAN THAT?" 235

XXIV. THE SCHOOL DEDICATION 241

XXV. THROUGH THE SECOND WINTER 253

XXVI. JUST HOW IT ALL BEGAN 262

XXVII. POKETOWN IN A NEW DRESS 271

XXVIII. NO ODOR OF GASOLINE! 280

XXIX. JANICE DAY'S FIRST LOVE LETTER 290

XXX. WHAT THE ECHO MIGHT HAVE HEARD 302

ILLUSTRATIONS

The quick eye of Janice Day caught sight of this row of nondescripts. (See page 15.) _Frontispiece_

FACING PAGE

The old violin wailed out the tune haltingly 72

God's world _did_ look bigger and greater from The Overlook. (See page 155.) 154

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Table of contents (by pages)

• 1: Janice Day by Helen Beecher Long
• 2: How different everything East here is from Greensboro
• 3: I knowed there was Days in Poketown
• 4: How long did you say you was goin' to stay in Poketown
• 5: Her full name's Amarilla Amarilla Scattergood
• 6: Untidy yard surrounding the old house
• 7: Is the almshouse near Poketown
• 8: Exclaimed the girl from Greensboro
• 9: Poketown is a purty slow old place
• 10: But nothin' ain't gone well with Jason late years
• 11: Ain't nothin' doin' in Poketown
• 12: Loud enough for Janice to hear
• 13: Janice heard Marty's hoe and she opened the garden gate
• 14: Marm always will plant carrots ev'ry spring
• 15: As his interest in Janice was shown
• 16: A couple of lean shoats squealed in a pen
• 17: Janice climbed the stairs to her room
• 18: Find Jase jest a mite leisurely
• 19: Janice did her best to keep to a cheerful tone
• 20: Janice helped in the garden again
• 21: Strangers were not plentiful in Poketown
• 22: Janice watched proceedings with interest
• 23: Poketown is just dreadful it's dreadful
• 24: The thin one was driving the piebald pony
• 25: Them Hammett gals is reg'lar fuss bugets
• 26: Unchildlike sound that made Janice shudder
• 27: Janice squeezed her hand quickly
• 28: And she snuggled closely to Janice
• 29: CHAPTER VIIIA BIT OF ROMANCE Hopewell Drugg
• 30: Hopewell Drugg is as mild as dishwater
• 31: And Janice felt her spirits falling again
• 32: She could write of the beauty of Poketown itself
• 33: But there must be some nice girls in Poketown
• 34: Beasely was a famous cook and housekeeper
• 35: And saw Hopewell leaning against the counter
• 36: Janice squeezed the hand firmly
• 37: Janice kissed the open page ecstatically
• 38: Daddy had expected she would find Poketown just what it was
• 39: But at her reiterated cry Marty explained
• 40: And on the public streets of Poketown
• 41: Janice stole away early to bed
• 42: Janice tried to untie the pump handle
• 43: Janice remembered how the carping Mrs
• 44: And Janice did not have even an umbrella
• 45: If gump meant a spineless creature
• 46: Drugg was looking languidly about the store in the dim
• 47: Drugg came with shuffling steps and lack lustre eyes
• 48: Hopewell Drugg seemed quite inspired
• 49: Where she had first met little Lottie Drugg
• 50: I didn't know anybody owned one around Poketown
• 51: He come down to Jefferson's store with a basket of pertaters
• 52: But Walky thought the observation over
• 53: I do not really belong in Poketown
• 54: If this Nelson Haley is any sort of a fellow
• 55: And Haley laughed and shrugged his shoulders
• 56: 'Rill would not go without Janice
• 57: Old Elder Concannon a grizzled
• 58: There was nothing Janice could do
• 59: Whenever she caught sight of Janice
• 60: At the beginning of a great gash in the hillside
• 61: But I thought Poketown was a particularly satisfactory place
• 62: From this sprang the idea of the Poketown Free Library
• 63: The scheme was not at all original with Janice
• 64: Concannon had become for Poketown a rich man
• 65: Walky Dexter did what carting was needed
• 66: I'm not sorry a bit that you came to Poketown
• 67: Toboggans were not popular in Poketown
• 68: Both in Poketown and back at Greensboro
• 69: Janice and Marty went down town together after supper
• 70: Marty stole softly to the stove
• 71: Janice stole back into her cold room
• 72: The effect upon Janice was a most unhappy one
• 73: Nobody could git over to Middletown to day
• 74: And Janice herself lifted the cover
• 75: Haley made light of these obstructions
• 76: Janice found that she could not face the wind
• 77: Nelson Haley smiled grimly and shook his head
• 78: The Poketown school teacher hurried away
• 79: I was quite sure Miss Janice would be hungry enough to eat
• 80: Maybe it's even worse than Makepiece reported
• 81: There ain't no hurry to get back to Poketown
• 82: Janice cried again to Haley and Marty
• 83: The relief Janice felt is not to be easily shown
• 84: The ice boat made good its name on the trip to Poketown
• 85: Elder Concannon declared loudly
• 86: This was the condition of poor little Lottie Drugg
• 87: Janice would not let the storekeeper lose heart
• 88: But Elder Concannon and Old Bill Jones
• 89: Whom Janice had met so soon after coming to Poketown
• 90: Miss Blossom Hammett was already busy over the pots
• 91: The supper down at the old Hammett farmhouse
• 92: But Janice felt that he was more serious than usual
• 93: Hopewell is grinding out his usual classic
• 94: Haley ain't goin' ter be here no longer than this term
• 95: You ax the Elder or old Bill Jones
• 96: Middler with more courage than was usual with him
• 97: Especially on the boys of Poketown
• 98: He seemed to have gained enthusiasm
• 99: Other improvements and changes had taken place in Poketown
• 100: For he was the principal teamster in Poketown
• 101: S'pose you'd been jest a drudge for Hopewell all these years
• 102: Led in any benefit to Poketown
• 103: But take it right here in Poketown
• 104: An' I don't see as there's anything can be done abeout it
• 105: And had watched her since she had come to Poketown
• 106: Hopewell allowed himself to be convinced
• 107: Never had Poketown been so busy
• 108: Janice had made no further comment
• 109: This lot was owned by old Elder Concannon
• 110: Elder Concannon once said to Janice
• 111: Hopewell had the trap door open
• 112: Beginning with Hopewell Drugg himself
• 113: Janice merely smiled quietly as she heard this conversation
• 114: Broxton Day is too free handed
• 115: He began to delve into the past history of Poketown
• 116: The child said Dear Janis
• 117: So gruffly that Janice was quite astonished
• 118: It is serious business for me
• 119: Beasely would be waiting supper for her boarder
• 120: Popular Copyrighted Fiction GROSSET DUNLAP
• 121: Popular Copyrighted Fiction GROSSET DUNLAP
• 122: DESERT GOLD Illustrated by Douglas Duer