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The Outdoor Girls of Deepdale; Or, camping and tramping for fun and health
Author: Laura Lee Hope Genre: Young AdultThe Outdoor Girls of Deepdale; Or, camping and tramping for fun and health
getting ready to start had been trying on all of them. Then the humor of the si
back home at once! Mamma will be dr
too," li
k wit oo, Moll
dears!" mu
the way back with them," exclaimed the sis
eing, doubtless, a chance to ma
! The
l, cunningly, seeing the drift of his s
go back," spoke Grace, making a motion t
ll insist on their going back. And oh! what faces they hav
oke Dodo. "Oo dive us ta
ly she looked up int
here was an air of determination abou
back!" decl
em," and proudly she displayed a very dirty bag, the opening of which dis
ion could be seen to somewhat resemble a musket. "Gun go bang-bang!" explained the little chap, "bad bears run 'way off.
you bad children! What shall I do? Mamma will be dreadfully worried, and
ndy," spoke the inexorable Dodo.
aid Paul
Grace, in a low voice, but, low as it was, the twins heard.
ffirmed Mollie. "Will you go straight back if you g
who usually led her small brother
is tandy?" With him evidently the prospect of present enjoyment w
me chocolates. "Now be good children. Do you th
o go with them? Oh, isn't this annoying, and we're behind tim
" mocked Will, who, with his chums, had bee
. Here, Frank-Allen-you see that he performs his part of the contract," and s
Will and Frank bade the girls good-speed and led away the two small one
rmured Mollie. "I'm so s
just a little pleasant episode, and
s late," suggested
fault, anyhow. We can just walk a little faster to mak
nt. "I'm not as comfortable as you, perhaps," she admitted, "but I will be when I get my other shoe
The day was one of those balmy ones in June, when it is neither too hot nor too blowy, when the breeze se
n and out among great maples that formed a leafy shade which might be most accep
ugh start having been made to all
we don't want to tire ourselves out on the first stage of our trip
going to be ath
y of you feel like resting at any time, don't hesitate to say so. We w
ts. The sight of a cow placidly chewing her cud in a meadow, the patient creature standing knee-deep amid the buttercups, was a picture they all admired, Mo
ovely enlargement," said Mollie.
least, all but Grace trod firmly, and she rather favored herself on a
e women and girls of the household, standing with rolled-up sleeve
ents, too, not
her daughter, as they paused in their work of was
s for peddle
playing horse in front of his house, scut
an' see the
d Betty. "What will w
he girls that they wondered why they had not before th
and they were fortunate in that their way still lay in pleasant places. They came to a little brook that ran under the road, and not far from it
" asked Grace, as the ever-mou
gry already?
the pangs," admitted t
e eaten much candy,
three
eforming!" cheered
me," Grace said, as she pouted. "I'm sure y
will eat soon, for I confess to hav
her than go to some restaurant, country hotel, or stop at a chance farm house, the girls had
tree to partake of their hay and oats. "It must be noon by that sign," went on the Little Captain, confirming her guess by a glance at
iful spring of water he
we ma
'm just dying for a good h
sandwiches were set out, with a bottle of olives to add to the attractiveness, and then the little ket
ly announced Betty. "
my
culated it around in the cup, until one fragrant brew was made
as she tasted it, cream and sugar having
ce. "I wouldn't have mi
n, as Betty, after a look at her watch, warned them that the better
time-worn sign-post bore letters that could scarcely be made out, and, though they had a road map, the girls were not quite sure which
Rockford, pleas
iously. "G'lang there!" This last
d to the right," murmured Betty, a
insisted Grace. "We'll tak
were destined to disappointment. In blissful ignorance they trudged on, talking so inter
he farmer had caused them to make. Again coming to a dividing of the way
n, and ten to Denby," r
kfo
hey stared
ay anything about Roc
ved our town," sugges
A snub-nosed, freckle-faced boy came along whistling
to Rockford, little
uh
is the road
ave any left, Grace," sugg
' candy?" asked the bo
answered Betty. "We wa
oy, with a grin, as though he took personal delig
ollie. "Don't you give
lt that we went w