The Story Girl

Opening of the book

THE STORY GIRL

By L. M. Montgomery

Author of “Anne of Green Gables,” “Anne of Avonlea,"

“Kilmeny of the Orchard,” etc.

With frontispiece and cover in colour by George Gibbs (not available in this file)

This book has been put on-line as part of the

BUILD-A-BOOK Initiative at the Celebration of

Women Writers through the combined work of

Leslee Suttie and Mary Mark Ockerbloom.

http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/

Reformatted by Ben Crowder

“She was a form of life and light

That seen, became a part of sight,

And rose, where’er I turn’d mine eye,

The morning-star of Memory!” —Byron.

TO MY COUSIN

Frederica E. Campbell
IN REMEMBRANCE OF OLD DAYS, OLD DREAMS, AND OLD LAUGHTER
CONTENTS
THE STORY GIRL
CHAPTER I. THE HOME OF OUR FATHERS
“I do like a road, because you can be always wondering
what is at the end of it.”
The Story Girl said that once upon a time. Felix and I,
on the May morning when we left Toronto for Prince Edward
Island, had not then heard her say it, and, indeed, were
but barely aware of the existence of such a person as the
Story Girl. We did not know her at all under that name. We
knew only that a cousin, Sara Stanley, whose mother, our
Aunt Felicity, was dead, was living down on the Island
with Uncle Roger and Aunt Olivia King, on a farm adjoining
the old King homestead in Carlisle. We supposed we should
get acquainted with her when we reached there, and we had

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