BOBBY BLAKE AT ROCKLEDGE SCHOOL

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

1. "The Overland Limited"

2. Apples and Applethwaite Plunkit

3. Fred in Trouble

4. An Eventful Afternoon

5. The Tale of a Scarecrow

6. A Fish Fry and a Startling Announcement

7. Financial Affairs

8. The Peep-Show

9. Off for Rockledge

10. New Surroundings

11. Getting Acquainted

12. In the Dormitory

13. The Poguey Fight

14. The Honor Medal

15. Getting Into Step

16. Hot Potatoes

17. Lost at Sea

18. The Bloody Corner

19. The Result

20. On the Brink of War

21. Give and Take

22. What Bobby Said

23. Good News Travels Slowly

24. Red Hair Stands for More Than Temper

25. The Winner

BOBBY BLAKE AT ROCKLEDGE SCHOOL

CHAPTER I

"THE OVERLAND LIMITED"

A boy of about ten, with a freckled face and fiery red hair cropped close to his head, came doubtfully up the side porch steps of the Blake house in Clinton and peered through the screen door at Meena, the Swedish girl.

Meena was tall and rawboned, with very red elbows usually well displayed, and her straw-colored hair was bound in a tight "pug" on top of her long, narrow head. Meena had sharp blue eyes and she could see boys a great way off.

"Mis' Blake—she ban gone out," said Meena, before the red-haired boy could speak. "You vant somet'ing? No?"

"I—I was looking for Bobby," said the visitor, stammeringly. He and Mrs. Blake's Swedish girl were not on good terms.

"I guess he ban gone out, too," said Meena, who did not want to be "bothered mit boys."