Campfire Girls at Twin Lakes

Girls at Twin Lakes, by Stella M. Francis

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Title: Campfire Girls at Twin Lakes The Quest of a Summer Vacation
Author: Stella M. Francis
Release Date: March 16, 2007 [EBook #20832]
Language: English
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CAMPFIRE GIRLS AT TWIN LAKES or, The Quest of a Summer Vacation
BY STELLA M. FRANCIS
M. A. DONOHUE & CO. CHICAGO NEW YORK
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CAMPFIRE GIRLS' SERIES
CAMPFIRE GIRLS IN THE ALLEGHANY MOUNTAINS; or, A Christmas Success Against Odds.
CAMPFIRE GIRLS IN THE COUNTRY; or, The Secret Aunt Hannah Forgot.
CAMPFIRE GIRLS' TRIP UP THE RIVER; or, Ethel Hollister's First Lesson.
CAMPFIRE GIRLS' OUTING; or, Ethel Hollister's Second Summer in Camp.
CAMPFIRE GIRLS' ON A HIKE; or, Lost in the Great North Woods.
CAMPFIRE GIRLS AT TWIN LAKES; or, The Quest of a Summer Vacation.
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COPYRIGHT 1918
M. A. DONOHUE & COMPANY
MADE IN U. S. A.
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INDEX
CHAPTER
I
About Teeth and Teddy Bears. 9 II A Special Meeting Called. 13 III A Boy and a Fortune. 18 IV The Girls Vote "Aye." 23 V Honors and Spies. 27 VI A Telegram En Route. 32 VII A Double-Room Mystery. 36 VIII Planning in Secret. 42 IX Further Plans. 47 X A Trip to Stony Point. 51 XI Miss Perfume Interferes. 56 XII The Man in the Auto. 61 XIII A Nonsense Plot. 65 XIV Sparring for a Fee. 70 XV Langford Gets a Check. 75 XVI Langford Checks Up. 82 XVII A Day of Hard Work. 87 XVIII Planning. 91 XIX Watched. 95 XX A Missile. 100 XXI "Sh!" 104 XXII The Graham Girls Call. 108 XXIII "High C." 115 XXIV The Runaway. 120 XXV A Little Scrapper. 125 XXVI Ammunition and Catapults. 130 XXVII The Ghost. 136 XXVIII A Bump on the Head. 141 XXIX A Cruel Woman. 146 XXX The Girls Win. 151
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CAMP FIRE GIRLS AT TWIN LAKES OR The Quest of a Summer Vacation
BY STELLA M. FRANCIS
CHAPTER I.
ABOUT TEETH AND TEDDY BEARS.
"Girls, I have some great news for you. I'm sure you'll be interested, and I hope you'll be as delighted as I am. Come on, all of you. Gather around in a circle just as if we were going to have a Council Fire and I'll tell you something that will--that will--Teddy Bear your teeth."
A chorus of laughter, just a little derisive, greeted Katherine Crane's enigmatical figure of speech. The merriment came from eleven members of Flamingo Camp Fire, who proceeded to form an arc of a circle in front of the speaker on the hillside grass plot near the white canvas tents of the girls' camp.
"What does it mean to Teddy Bear your teeth?" inquired Julietta Hyde with mock impatience. "Come, Katherine, you are as much of a problem with your ideas as Harriet Newcomb is with her big words. Do you know the nicknames some of us are thinking of giving to her?"
"No, what is it?" Katherine asked.
"Polly."
"Polly? Why Polly?" was the next question of the user of obscure figures of speech, who seemed by this time to have forgotten the subject that she started to introduce when she opened the conversation.
"Polly Syllable, of course," Julietta answered, and the burst of laughter that followed would have been enough to silence the most ambitious joker, but this girl fun-maker was not in the least ambitious, so she laughed appreciatively with the others.
"Well, anyway," she declared after the merriment had subsided; "Harriet always uses her polysyllables correctly, so I am not in the least offended at your comparison of my obscurities with her profundities. There, how's that? Don't you think you'd better call me Polly, too?"
"Not till you explain to us what it means to Teddy Bear one's teeth," Azalia Atwood stipulated sternly. "What I'm afraid of is that you're trying to introduce politics into this club, and we won't stand for that a minute."
"Oh, yes, Julietta, you may have your wish, if what Azalia says is true," Marie Crismore announced so eagerly that everybody present knew that she had an idea and waited expectantly for it to come out. "We'll call you Polly--Polly Tix."
Of course everybody laughed at this, and then Harriet Newcomb demanded, that her rival for enigmatical honors make good.
"What does it mean to Teddy Bear one's teeth?" she demanded.
"Oh, you girls are making too much of that remark," Katherine protested modestly, "I really am astonished at every one of you, ashamed of you, in fact, for failing to get me. I meant that you