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Title: The outdoor girls on Pine Island : or, A cave and what it contained
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Hope, Laura Lee
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Publisher: New York : Grosset & Dunlap
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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to get into the waterthis morning. Oh, I can almost feel it! Lets run, suggested Mollie. Somehow to-day I cant be sedate. Ill race everybody to thebank. She broke into a run, and the others followed—bringing up at the edge of the water a momentlater, breathless but glowing. This time no onehesitated, not even Amy. They ran out into thetepid water, then plunged in, swimming withstrong, even, steady strokes. It had been decided that all were to take partin the race—consequently all were bent on losingnot one moment of practice. They swam, offand on, for the whole morning—occasionallythrowing themselves upon the mossy bank, to restand get their breath, then going at it again withrenewed vigor and resolve. It was only when the position of the sun andacute pangs of hunger warned them that it waslong past their luncheon hour, that they decidedit was time to turn their attention to otherthings. I left the basket back at the house, said Mol-lie, when they had come to this conclusion. I
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THEY RAN OUT INTO THE TEPID WATER.The Outdoor- Girls on Pine Island. Page 15$ Tin- N;-:W YOIIK prniic r.i ASTMIl, LENOX AND WATER SPRITES 159 thought probably we would like to get dressed be-fore we ate. Oh, why? Will protested. Its a scorchinghot day, and well probably want to go in for aswim later on, anyway. Why not slip a skirt and middy over our bath-ing suits?3 Betty suggested. By the time wereach the house, our suits will be dry. Mine isalmost, now. Good! said Grace. Well feel more re-spectable, and if we do want to go in for a swimlater it wont be any trouble at all to take themoff. So it was decided, and they all tramped offthrough the woods, laughing, merry, and friendswith the world. CHAPTER XIX A MARVELOUS DISCOVERY UPON reaching the house the Outdoor Girlsran upstairs while the boys went back to camp toget some things they thought they might need.A few moments later the girls rejoined them. Where shall we go? Roy, who was leadingthe van, paused and looked behind him. Lets

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