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Title: Merrylips

Author: Beulah Marie Dix

Illustrator: Anne Cooper

Frank T. Merrill

Release date: January 18, 2025 [eBook #75142]

Language: English

Original publication: New York: The Macmillan Company, 1906

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MERRYLIPS

By BEULAH MARIE DIX

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY
FRANK T. MERRILL

AND
NEW FRONTISPIECE AND DECORATIONS BY
ANNE COOPER

New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1927

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Set up and electrotyped. Published September, 1906. Reprinted 1907,
1909, 1910, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1920,
1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925.

New edition September, 1925; June, 1926.

Reissued October, 1927.

Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing Co.—Berwick & Smith Co.
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.

TO
EVERY LITTLE GIRL
WHO HAS WISHED FOR AN HOUR
TO BE A LITTLE BOY
THIS STORY IS DEDICATED
BY HER FRIEND
THE AUTHOR

MERRYLIPS

I.	A Maid of Old
II.	Her Birthday
III.	Out in the World
IV.	At Larkland
V.	Among the Golden Gorse
VI.	The Tart that was never Baked
VII.	In the Midst of Alarums
VIII.	The Silver Ring
IX.	All in the Night
X.	Prisoner of War
XI.	The Coming of Herbert Lowry
XII.	A Venner to the Rescue!
XIII.	In Borrowed Plumes
XIV.	Off to the Wars
XV.	Tidings at Monksfield
XVI.	Brother Officers
XVII.	"Who can Sing and won't Sing—"
XVIII.	To Arms!
XIX.	The End of the Day
XX.	Lady Sybil's Goddaughter
XXI.	When the Captain Called
XXII.	A Parting of the Ways
XXIII.	Outside King's Slynton
XXIV.	The Darkest Day
XXV.	After the Storm
XXVI.	He that was Lost
XXVII.	How Rupert was too Clever
XXVIII.	In the Enemy's Camp
XXIX.	A Friend in Need
XXX.	To Put it to the Touch
XXXI.	At Lord Caversham's Table
XXXII.	News from London
XXXIII.	Westward Ho!
XXXIV.	Journey's End
XXXV.	The Passing of Tibbott Venner