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ETHEL MORTON
AT SWEETBRIER
LODGE
By
MABELL S. C. SMITH
THE WORLD SYNDICATE PUBLISHING COMPANY
Cleveland, Ohio New York, N. Y.
Printed in the United States of America
CONTENTS
- CHAPTER PAGE
- I A New Craft 9
- II Playing with Concrete 25
- III The Club Selects the Benches 37
- IV Christopher Finds a New Lodging 52
- V The Law of Laughter 67
- VI Spring All the Year Round 80
- VII Closets and Stepmothers 94
- VIII “Off to Philadelphia in the Morning” 104
- IX Helen Distinguishes Herself 122
- X The Land of “Cat-fish and Waffles” 136
- XI Lights and a Fall 150
- XII In the Family Hospital 162
- XIII A Golden Color Scheme 173
- XIV At the Metropolitan 184
- XV Preparations for the Housewarming 203
- XVI Columbus Day 219
- XVII The Parting Breakfast 234
CHAPTER I
A NEW CRAFT
“Carefully! O, do be careful, EthelBrown! I’m so afraid I’ll drop one ofthem!”
It was Ethel Blue Morton speaking to her cousin,who was helping her and their other cousin, DorothySmith, take Dicky Morton’s newly hatched chickensout of the incubator and put them into the brooder.
“I have dropped one,” exclaimed Dorothy.“Poor little dinky thing! It didn’t hurt it a bit,though. See, it’s running about as chipper as ever.”
“Are you counting ’em?” demanded Dicky,whose small hands were better suited than those ofthe girls for making the transfer that was to establishthe chicks in their new habitation.
“Yes,” answered all three in chorus.
“Here’s one with a twisted leg. He must havefallen off the tray when he was first hatched.” criedEthel Brown.
“He lookth pretty well. I gueth he’ll live if Ifeed him by himthelf tho the throng ones won’tcrowd him away from the feed panth,” said Dicky,examining the cripple, for in spite of his small supplyof seven years he had learned from his