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Campfire Girls’
Lake Camp
... OR ...
Searching For New Adventures
By
IRENE ELLIOTT BENSON
[Illustration: Publisher’s Logo]
M. A. DONOHUE & COMPANY
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
Copyright
1918
M. A. Donohue & Co.
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CONTENTS
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Chapter Page
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
Book 2 A Princess of the Woods 155
Story Edna’s Sacrifice 304
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CAMPFIRE GIRLS SERIES
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HOW ETHEL HOLLISTER BECAME A CAMPFIRE GIRL
ETHEL HOLLISTER’S SECOND SUMMER AS A CAMPFIRE GIRL
CAMPFIRE GIRLS MOUNTAINEERING
CAMPFIRE GIRL’S RURAL RETREAT
CAMPFIRE GIRLS IN THE FOREST
CAMPFIRE GIRL’S LAKE CAMP
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List Price 75¢ Each
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CAMP FIRE GIRLS AT TWIN LAKES
OR
The Quest of a Summer Vacation
BY STELLA M. FRANCIS
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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 would be
delighted—dee-light-ed—get me?—dee-light-ed.”
“Oh, I get you,” Helen Nash announced, lifting her hand over her head
with an “I know, teacher,” attitude.
“Well, Helen, get up and speak your piece,” Katherine directed.
“You referred to the way Theodore Roosevelt shows his teeth when he says
he’s “dee-light-ed”; but we got you wrong. When you said you would tell
us something that would ‘Teddy Bear’ our teeth, you meant b-a-r-e, not
b-e-a-r. When Teddy laughs, he bares his teeth. Isn’t that it?”
“This isn’t the first time that Helen Nash has proved herself a regular
Sherlock Holmes,” Marion Stanlock declared enthusiastically. “We are
pretty well equipped with brains in this camp, I want to tell you. We
have Harriet, the walking dictionary; Katherine, the girl enigma; and
Helen, the detective.”
“Every girl is supposed to be a puzzle,” Ernestine Johanson reminded. “I
don’t like to snatch any honors away from anyone, but, you know, we
should always have the truth.”
“Yes, let us have the truth about this interesting, Teddy-teeth-baring,
dee-light-ing announcement that Katherine has to make to us,” Estelle
Adler implored.
“The delay wasn’t my fault,” Katherine said, with an attitude of
“perfect willingness if all this nonsense will stop.” “But here comes
Miss Ladd. Let’s wait for her to join us, for I know you will all want
her opinion of the proposition I am going to put to you.”
Miss Harriet Ladd, Guardian of the Fire, bearing a large bouquet of wild
flowers that she had just gathered in timber and along the bank of the
stream, joined the group of girls seated on the grass a minute later,
and then all waited expectantly for Katherine to begin.
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