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PEGGY PARSONS
A HAMPTON FRESHMAN BY
ANNABEL SHARP
AUTHOR OF "PEGGY PARSONS AT PREP SCHOOL"
M. A. DONOHUE & COMPANY
CHICAGO NEW YORK
MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Contents
CHAPTER I MAKING AN IMPRESSION
CHAPTER II SUITE 22
CHAPTER III PEGGY'S MASTERPIECE
CHAPTER IV NEW PAINT AND POETRY
CHAPTER V MORNING GLORY
CHAPTER VI AS OTHERS SEE US
CHAPTER VII CINDERELLA
CHAPTER VIII INDIAN SUMMER
CHAPTER IX THE HOUSE DANCE
CHAPTER X TINSEL AND SPANGLES
CHAPTER XII THE AUCTION
CHAPTER XIII FEET OF CLAY
CHAPTER XIV SPRING TERM
INTRODUCTION
Last year Peggy Parsons and Katherine Foster were room mates at Andrews
Preparatory School.
Their escapades and their hunger for good times and adventure kept them
from being great favorites of the principal there, but they were loved
by the girls of the school and were soon invested with a degree of
leadership.
"Peggy Parsons at Prep School," the first book in this series, tells how
much happiness they managed to crowd into a single year.
A would be charitable enterprise of Peggy's is recounted, also. And if
she had never undertaken it, mistaken though she was, she could not have
gone to Hampton, and the present volume would never have been written.
Mr. Huntington, a rich old man, whom people believed to be
poverty stricken because of the way he lived, became a great friend of
Peggy's as the result of a Thanksgiving dinner party she arranged for
the cooking class of her school to give him.
She and Katherine were instrumental, through an adventure in playing
amateur detectives, in finding Mr. Huntington's grandson, of whom he had
lost track.
The grandson the "Jim" of the present book was an Amherst student
about Peggy's own age.
Katherine Foster had planned to go to Hampton College, but Peggy could
not see her way clear. The room mates were broken hearted at the
prospect of not being together for another year. After Katherine had
been assigned another room mate, Gloria Hazeltine, Peggy gave up hope of
going and could not plan with any interest for any other kind of year.
Mr. Huntington then stepped in and turned over for Peggy's use the
income from a dear little group of bungalows which he had named "Parsons
Court."
So Katherine and Peggy were enabled to look forward to college together
just as they had their prep school.
PEGGY PARSONS
A HAMPTON FRESHMAN
CHAPTER I MAKING AN IMPRESSION
"Katherine Foster!"
"Peggy Parsons!"
Two suit cases went banging down on the wooden platform and two radiant
figures hurled themselves into each other's arms, oblivious of the
shriek of departing trains, the rattling of baggage trucks, and the
jostling crowds who were at liberty to laugh at their impulsiveness.
For this was Springfield, where East meets West on its way to half a
dozen New England colleges, and where every fall the same scenes of
joyous greeting are enacted with the annual accompaniment of little
squeals of delighted welcome and many glad kisses.
"Well, Peggy, you look just the same as ever!"
"It's been a perfect century , Katherine! Going right up to Hampton?
Taking the 9:10? So am I. Oh, so much to talk about "
Breathlessly chattering all the while, the two girls in blue serge, who
had been room mates last year at preparatory school, gathered up their
suit cases again and crossed the tracks to the other side of the station
to wait for the Hampton train. Engines steamed along before and behind
them, but neither looked away from the other's glowing face during the
crossing, nor did they cease both to talk at once until they were
actually seated in their train some time later, packed in with a mob of
laughing and attractive girls with suit cases in the aisles, in the
racks over their heads, and in their laps... Continue reading book >>
