The Motor Girls on Cedar Lake The Hermit of Fern Island

perfectly splendid!" e

himed in her tw

prey to that clump of white birches over there, and would want to paint pictures on the bark. But I fancied she would take more surely to the pines; they are

ally?" Thi

to try it alone. I never could wait until evening to start my new boat. And isn't it lovely that you have arrived in time to take the initial run? I remember you both took the f

," objected th

us this trip. Yes, Cora, I'm all ready. I saw the craft as we came up. Wasn't i

sort of a good boat, but mother wanted something really reliable

ow upon you?" asked Belle with a laugh. "

d prepared to follow Cora, who was already leaving the camp. Belle, too, started, but one could see that she, though a motor girl, did not exactly fanc

ll you it is the very prettiest boat on Cedar Lake, and that is saying

eiterated the

now about running

about this one in particular," replied Cora. "The man who ran it up fro

craft and affectionately

and besides, there isn't so much to get

tepped in after her hostess.

will be interested in seeing how it works. Oh! There is the steamer from the train. Hurry! Perhaps there

before Bess or Belle had really gotten

that makes the electrical connection: then I have to give this fly wheel-it's stiff-but I have to swing it around so! There!" and the w

sly, for the big steamer with its car

ne may steer at the bow. Suppose you take the forward wheel

d the girl, "but I hop

the way you want to go. Now we'll

ing seemed to work beautifully, and presently Bess was so interested in the gentle swerving of the craft, as t

ddenly exclaimed Belle. "S

a response to the folks on the steamer. "Bess, keep clear out.

from the steamer caught them broadside, and drenc

"-we are running rig

led Cora. "Turn!

onfusion. Would they be run down on this

es of this series entitled respectively: "The Motor Girls," "The Motor Girls on a Tour," "The Motor Girls at Lookout Beach," and "The Motor Girls Through New England." In each of these volumes we have met Cora Kimball, the handsome, dashing girl who con

e girls went to Lookout Beach, where they had plenty of good fun, as well as time enough to find the runaways, two very interesting young girls, who had decamped from the "Strawberry patch." It was like a game of hide and seek, but in the end the motor girls did capture the runaways. Then in the story "Through Ne

the gift of Mrs. Kimball to her daughter, for that mother, in her days of widowhood,

and now, after a day's run from Chelton, the home town, in their auto, the Flyaway, the Robinson g

turn the auxiliary steering wheel, but Bess in her fright was tur

hrieked Belle.

. The passengers on the steamer ha

Cora as she jumped up

rd wheel. "Tur