The Corner House Girls Under Canvas / How they reached Pleasant Cove and what happened afterward

t'?" demanded Lucy.

ops of the waves," explained Pearl. "

ngalow-and the Co

ve a scrumptious time

eepy, and Lucy begged the pr

of you, I'm sure,

"I know Lute. She's sleepy, herself. You

ess and Dot. "I sleep so slowly that it takes

s her cousin departed, following the two sm

the inhabitants of Lo

Presby. "The people of London aren't any more

"but the book says 'the popula

ully bald head. He was telling us once that in some famous battle of the Civil War in which he took part, his he

s not much grazing up

e girls began to guess riddles. Somebody propounded the old one about the wind: "What is it

a gave us a lecture about them, and I bet we'r

hed Pearl, slapping vigorously at one of the pes

. "The bedrooms are screened. I believe we'd all better seek the have

them, and so got it all done in short order. The baggage had

he fishing port, as well as the

they spied Trix and her party on the big veranda. The girls hailed each

us," said Ruth to Agnes. "Now, never you mind

after which they rested and then bathed. It was the Corner House girls'

upon you," she confessed. "But there was the Alice-doll sitting on t

looking after housekeeping affairs. It was she w

d candles in the bed chambers; while there was a ma

lamps, and Pearl told a funny story about her own little

about the lamps. She told mamma that 'Uncle Phil had his 'lectricity in a lamp right on

that, as Ruth pointed out, it could not be used, Pearl made another trip to th

," Ruth said, when she saw that the chimney was no

s just as good as the old

ys should always be tall enough to come up

upted Pearl. "It's

have discovered just why it was unwise to use a lamp with a short chimney insid

lamp that evening. As before, they sat on the porch and played

half after eight. It was an ho

ell s

" said Ann. "He's gon

oke I smell," declar

ieked Agnes. "L

ng out of the front hall upon the verand

Spoondrift bungalow. A single glance into the hall showed Ruth Ke

inged rooms above. Tess and Dot could only be reached by climbing up the

rom the kitchen tap in pots and pans-and others ran screaming along the street for help, R

e moment. She got to the window of the room in which her sisters slept, and screamed for Te

she could neither lift the window-sash nor stir the screen. So she beat the tough wire in with her fists, and they bled and hurt her dread

Get up!" she shrieke

around her, and put her out of the window upon the roof. Then she

the cause of the excitement. "Save the A

ugh the gathering smoke, for the doll. Wi

Harrod came with a fire extinguisher and attacked the flam

isters were in. Some of the other girls were quite h

was completely out. Then the Spoond

id Mr. Harrod the next morning. "Luckily none of your guests lost their clothing, Pe

the gathering smoke, for the doll. With