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The third children's novel I have read from Jane (D.) Abbott, following upon her 1920 school story, Highacres, and her 1932 holiday adventure, The Young Dalfreys, Merridy Road (1930) was an engaging tale, and featured an appealing young heroine. There were times when Dicket, with her enthusiasm, many questions for Car'line Brant, and imaginative appreciation of the world around her, reminded me of Anne Shirley, the eponymous heroine of L.M. Montgomery's classic Anne of Green Gables. That is high praise indeed! Abbott, who spent most of her life in the Buffalo, New York area, seems to have set many of her stories in that same northwestern region of the state, and this is no exception. I assume that the 'Endfield' in the story refers to Enfield, a small town in Tompkins County. She also seems quite fond of the name Dicket, which I had never encountered before, but which she also used in her 1933 boarding-school story, Dicket: A Story of Friendships. Although none of the events chronicled in Merridy Road were particularly surprising - surely, in stories such as this, disability and misfortune are always temporary, and difficulties and disagreements are amicably resolved? - I nevertheless enjoyed following along as our heroine, her father, and her many new friends, find their way through to a happy ending. The sub-plot involving Holly Oliver and his dog Clown was immensely poignant, and the way Dicket confronted the entire town in his defense, inspiring. Although not without her own ideas of class, in which like finds like, Abbott often seems to argue against petty snobbery in her stories, undermining the idea that money (or in the case of Holly, good family) is a determining factor in the worth of one's character. This idea can also be seen in Highacres and The Young Dalfreys. All in all, an engaging novel, one I would recommend to readers interested in Jane Abbott's work specifically, or vintage American girls' fiction in general. ( )