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Caps and Capers: A Story of Boarding-School Life is a juvenile fiction story for girls written by Gabrielle E. Jackson, who is also the author of novels like Pretty Polly Perkins, Denise and Ned Toodles,,By Love’s Sweet Rule,The Colburn Prize,etc.

Excerpts:

The speaker was a fine-looking man about thirty-five years of age, seated before a large writing-table in a handsomely appointed library. It was littered with catalogues, pamphlets, letters and papers sent from dozens of schools, and from the quantity of them one would fancy that every school in the country was represented. This was the result of an advertisement in the “Times” for a school in which young children are received, carefully trained, thoroughly taught, and which can furnish 14unquestionable references regarding its social standing and other qualifications.