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Title: The Camp Fire Girls Amid the Snows

Author: Margaret Vandercook

Release Date: May 18, 2014 [eBook #45657]

Language: English

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“Ach Gnädiges Fräuleins, It Ist Not Possible”

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. The Winter Manitou 7

II. “Sunrise Cabin” 22

III. “A Rose of the World” 38

IV. “The Reason o’ It” 50

V. Mollie’s Suggestion 61

VI. A Black Sheep 69

VII. Turning the Tables 81

VIII. Possibilities 98

IX. Christmas Eve at the Cabin 110

X. Esther’s Old Home 123

XI. Gifts 129

XII. The Camp Fire Play 137

XIII. An Indian Love Song 149

XIV. Mollie’s Confidant 156

XV. A Boomerang 168

XVI. The Apology 183

XVII. General News 190

XVIII. Donna and Her Don 202

XIX. Memories 212

XX. The Explanation 223

XXI. Misfortune 234

XXII. Saying Farewell to the Cabin 242

XXIII. Future Plans 253

ILLUSTRATIONS

“Ach Gnädiges Fräuleins, It Ist Not Possible” Frontispiece

PAGE

“Turn That Box Over to Me” 85

The Song Had a Plaintive Cadence 152

“Do As I Tell You, Princess, Please” 218

The Camp Fire Girls Amid the Snows

CHAPTER I
The Winter Manitou

The snow was falling in heavy slashing sheets, and a December snowstorm in the New Hampshire hills means something more serious than a storm in city streets or even an equal downfall upon more level meadows and plains.

Yet on this winter afternoon, about an hour before twilight and along the