The Outdoor Girls at Ocean View; Or, The Box That Was Found in the Sand

ce, sinking into a seat beside Mol

g toward the window to wave

to something-he has a se

l the quicker. Boys are that way," declared Mollie,

an a hurried search among the various articles she

t something?" a

d Grace, with a look of contentme

the summer," said Amy Blackford to her hostess when they wer

an View," remarked Betty's mother. "A

t be from what B

Nelson, looking over the top of hi

Amy, questioningly. "

Ocean View," went on Betty's father.

think you never ate anything else, and you know if you ta

"But there's an old lobsterman-Tin-Back, they call him-near Edgemere in whom

Tin-Back?" asked Amy

funny that would

r. "I didn't have time when I came dow

a little later, the four chums were conversing. "We can go sai

rate-treasure in some cave,

y, perhaps the most unsoph

y offering her bag of sweets. The h

Amy, eagerly. "I should love

his world. If there was a pirate's cave it would be lighted with electricity and an admission fee ch

atching sight of Betty's father agai

nd on the coast near

ere around Ocean View. Or, perhaps it would be more correct to say that one of Kidd's treasures. O

y, with glistening ey

asure story, I suppose," answered

y! Don't

here may be some treasure buried in the sand n

it!" cried Amy. "I'm going t

ad been looking from the window

reasure,"

ret," observed Grace. "I wonder whe

r?" aske

those chocolates. The

candy before we arrive I-I don't know

. There was the usual scramble on the part of our friends, and other passengers, to alight, and when the gi

hy they call it that. You

uable along the shore to allow of the village being there. The town is about a mile back from the wa

ow owners. There were several shell roads running from the main street of the town down to the water's edge, however. And soon

e, as the carriage turned along a highway that p

was a large bay, enclosed in a point of land that

dgemere?" a

answered Bet

ergreen and other trees, on the very point of land that jutt

ed Amy. "And we can have still water

t's why mamma and I decided on

," murmu

g surf!" declared Mollie, w

d when the carriage stopped within the fence, at the side porch, th

had forgotten part of it, but I like i

et!" decl

as Percy Falconer wou

ed Betty, mak

gnarled and twisted hands, and a face almost lost in a bush of beard, yet in who

imed in hoarse tones-his voice seeme

arrived," Mr

ng all ready for ye! 'Mandy has a

ked Mrs. Nelson

sterman and a character. I engaged his wife to c

augh. "Leastways they all calls me that. I'll take them grips," he went on

ell!" exclaimed Mollie,

old lobsterman. "I reckoned it'd be

" gasp

m this mornin' at low tide. Nothin' like quahogs for chowder,

eally your na

ll clams, lobsters and crabs, but I don't never sell no tin-bac

re the lobsterman could answer, Betty, fr

, and select