An American Girl Abroad   By: Adeline Trafton (1845-)

AN

AMERICAN GIRL ABROAD.

BY

ADELINE TRAFTON.

ILLUSTRATED

BY MISS L. B. HUMPHREY.

BOSTON: LEE AND SHEPARD, PUBLISHERS. NEW YORK: LEE, SHEPARD AND DILLINGHAM.

Entered, according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1872, BY LEE AND SHEPARD, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

Electrotyped at the Boston Stereotype Foundry, No. 19 Spring Lane.

I DEDICATE

This Record of Pleasant Days

TO MY FATHER,

REV. MARK TRAFTON.

BOOKS FOR "OUR GIRLS."

THE GIRLHOOD SERIES.

By Popular Authors.

AN AMERICAN GIRL ABROAD.

By ADELINE F. TRAFTON. 16mo, cloth, illustrated. $1.50.

One of the most bright, chatty, wide awake books of travel ever written. It abounds in information, is as pleasant reading as a story book, and full of the wit and sparkle of "An American Girl" let loose from school and ready for a frolic.

ONLY GIRLS.

By VIRGINIA F. TOWNSEND, Author of "That Queer Girl," &c., &c. 12mo, cloth, illustrated. $1.50.

"It is a thrilling story, written in a fascinating style, and the plot is adroitly handled."

It might be placed in any Sabbath School library, so pure is it in tone, and yet it is so free from the mawkishness and silliness that mar the class of books usually found there, that the veteran novel reader is apt to finish it at a sitting.

THE DOCTOR'S DAUGHTER.

By SOPHIE MAY, Author of "Our Helen," "The Asbury Twins," &c. 12mo, cloth, illustrated. $1.50.

"A delightful book, original and enjoyable," says the Brownville Echo .

"A fascinating story, unfolding, with artistic touch, the young life of one of our impulsive, sharp witted, transparent and pure minded girls of the nineteenth century," says The Contributor , Boston.

SALLY WILLIAMS.

=The Mountain Girl.= By Mrs. EDNA D. CHENEY, Author of "Patience," "Social Games," "The Child of the Tide," &c. 12mo, cloth, illustrated. $1.50.

Pure, strong, healthy, just what might be expected from the pen of so gifted a writer as Mrs. Cheney. A very interesting picture of life among the New Hampshire hills, enlivened by the tangle of a story of the ups and downs of every day life in this out of the way locality. The characters introduced are quaintly original, and the adventures are narrated with remarkable skill.

LOTTIE EAMES.

=Or, do your best and leave the rest.= By a Popular Author. 16mo, illus. $1.50.

"A wholesome story of home life, full of lessons of self sacrifice, but always bright and attractive in its varied incidents."

RHODA THORNTON'S GIRLHOOD.

By Mrs. MARY E. PRATT. 16mo, cloth, illustrated. $1.50.

A hearty and healthy story, dealing with young folks and home scenes, with sleighing, fishing and other frolics to make things lively.

The above six volumes are furnished in a handsome box, for $9.00, or sold separately by all booksellers, or sent by mail, postpaid, on receipt of price by

LEE AND SHEPARD, Publishers, Boston.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

PAGE

I.

"At night we descended into the depths of the steamer to worship with the steerage passengers." FRONTISPIECE.

II.

"A dozen umbrellas were tipped up; the rain fell fast upon a dozen upturned, expectant faces." 57

III.

"At the word of command they struck the most extraordinary attitudes." 157

IV.