THE OUTDOOR GIRLS IN A WINTER CAMP ***
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The Outdoor Girls In a Winter Camp
OR
GLORIOUS DAYS ON SKATES AND ICE BOATS
BY LAURA LEE HOPE
AUTHOR OF "THE OUTDOOR GIRLS OF DEEPDALE," "THE OUTDOOR GIRLS AT RAINBOW LAKE," "THE BOBBSEY TWINS," "THE BOBBSEY TWINS AT THE SEASHORE," ETC.
_ILLUSTRATED_
NEW YORK GROSSET & DUNLAP PUBLISHERS
Made in the United States of America
=BOOKS FOR GIRLS=
BY LAURA LEE HOPE
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=THE OUTDOOR GIRLS SERIES=
THE OUTDOOR GIRLS OF DEEPDALE THE OUTDOOR GIRLS AT RAINBOW LAKE THE OUTDOOR GIRLS IN A MOTOR CAR THE OUTDOOR GIRLS IN A WINTER CAMP THE OUTDOOR GIRLS IN FLORIDA
=THE BOBBSEY TWINS BOOKS=
For Little Men and Women
THE BOBBSEY TWINS THE BOBBSEY TWINS IN THE COUNTRY THE BOBBSEY TWINS AT THE SEASHORE THE BOBBSEY TWINS AT SCHOOL THE BOBBSEY TWINS AT SNOW LODGE
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GROSSET & DUNLAP, PUBLISHERS, NEW YORK
COPYRIGHT, 1913, BY GROSSET & DUNLAP.
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THE OUTDOOR GIRLS IN A WINTER CAMP
[Illustration: "SLOW DOWN--DON'T RUN INTO ANYTHING!" BEGGED BETTY.
_The Outdoor Girls in a Winter Camp._ _Frontispiece_ (_Page 106._)]
CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE I DANGER 1 II A FINE CHANCE 14 III THE COMPLICATIONS 24 IV MR. BLACKFORD'S CLUE 30 V UNPLEASANT NEWS 40 VI PREPARATIONS 47 VII OFF FOR CAMP 57 VIII A SPILL 66 IX GETTING SETTLED 74 X WARNED OFF 81 XI THE RIVALS 88 XII IN A BIG STORM 99 XIII THE MISSING PIECE 107 XIV AN ICE BOAT RACE 116 XV IN A TRAP 125 XVI TROUBLE 131 XVII A SNOW FIGHT 140 XVIII THE AUTO ICE BOAT 146 XIX MAROONED 153 XX TO THE RESCUE 160 XXI A HELPING HAND 166 XXII THE OLD LUMBERMAN 178 XXIII REVELATIONS 183 XXIV THE LYNX 191 XXV CHRISTMAS JOYS 203
THE OUTDOOR GIRLS IN A WINTER CAMP
CHAPTER I
DANGER
"How cold it is!" exclaimed Grace Ford, wrapping closer about her a fur neck-piece, and plunging her gloved hands deeper into the pockets of her maroon sweater. "I had no idea it was so chilling!"
"Nonsense!" cried Betty Nelson, her cheeks aglow. "Skate about, and you'll soon be warm enough. Isn't it glorious, Mollie?"
"Surely, and the ice is perfect. Come on Grace, and we'll see who'll be first to the bend!" and Mollie, her dark eyes dancing under the spell of the day, circled about the almost shivering Grace, doing a gliding waltz on skates.
"I don't want to race!" protested the tall, slim girl who had complained about the weather.
"Oh, but you must!" insisted Betty. "Come, we'll have a short, sharp one, and then you'll feel so warm you'll wonder you ever said it was chilly."
"I wish I had brought along that vacuum bottle of hot chocolate, as I intended," murmured Grace, reflectively.
"Nobody stopped you!" exclaimed Mollie, a trifle sharply. Of late she had had less and less patience with the "confectionery-failing" of Grace, as she termed it.
