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THE CAMP FIRE GIRLS
ON THE OPEN ROAD
OR, GLORIFY WORK
By HILDEGARD G. FREY
Author of
The Camp Fire Girls Series
A. L. BURT COMPANY
Publishers New York
THE
Camp Fire Girls Series
By HILDEGARD G. FREY
- The Camp Fire Girls in the Maine Woods
- or, The Winnebago’s Go Camping
- The Camp Fire Girls at School
- or, The Wohelo Weavers
- The Camp Fire Girls at Onoway House
- or, The Magic Garden
- The Camp Fire Girls Go Motoring
- or, Along the Road That Leads the Way
- The Camp Fire Girls Larks and Pranks
- or, The House of the Open Door
- The Camp Fire Girls on Ellen’s Isle
- or, the Trail of the Seven Cedars
- The Camp Fire Girls on the Open Road
- or, Glorify Work
- The Camp Fire Girls Do Their Bit
- or, Over The Top With the Winnebago’s
Copyright, 1918
By A. L. BURT COMPANY
THE CAMP FIRE GIRLS ON THE OPEN ROAD
Just then a negro stepped suddenly from behindthe bushes along the road and startled Sandhelo so that he promptlysat up on his haunches to get a better look at the apparition.Page 49.
“The Camp-Fire Girls on the Open Road.”
THE CAMP FIRE GIRLS
ON THE OPEN ROAD
KATHERINE TO THE WINNEBAGOS
Oct. 1, 19—.
Dear First-And-Onlys:
When I got to the post-office to-day and foundthere was no letter from you, my heart sank rightthrough the bottom of my number seven boots andburied itself in the mud under the doorsill. All daylong I had had a feeling that there would be a letter,and that hope kept me up nobly through the tryingordeal of attempting to teach spelling and geographyand arithmetic to a roomful of children ofassorted ages who seem as determined not to learnas I am determined to teach them. It sustained andsoothed me through the exciting process of “settling”Absalom Butts, the fourteen-year-old bullyof the class, with whom I have a preliminary skirmishevery day in the week before recitations canbegin; and through the equally trying business oflistening to his dull-witted sister, Clarissa, spell “example”forty ways but the right