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Title: How Ethel Hollister Became a Campfire Girl

Author: Irene Elliott Benson

Release Date: December 13, 2006 [eBook #20106]

Language: English

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HOW ETHEL HOLLISTER BECAME A CAMPFIRE GIRL

by

IRENE ELLIOTT BENSON

Chicago
M. A. Donohue & Company

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CANOE AND CAMPFIRE SERIES

Four Books of Woodcraft and Adventure in the Forest and on the Water that every Boy Scout should have in his Library

By ST. GEORGE RATHBORNE

  CANOEMATES IN CANADA; or, Three Boys Afloat on the Saskatchewan.
  THE YOUNG FUR-TAKERS: or, Traps and Trails in the Wilderness.
  THE HOUSE-BOAT BOYS; or, Drifting Down to the Sunny South.
  CHUMS IN DIXIE; or, The Strange Cruise of a Motor Boat.
  CAMP MATES IN MICHIGAN; or, With Pack and Paddle in the Pine Woods.
  ROCKY MOUNTAIN BOYS; or, Camping in the Big Game Country.

In these four delightful volumes the author has drawn bountifully from his thirty-five years experience as a true sportsman and lover of nature, to reveal many of the secrets of the woods, such as all Boys Scouts strive to know. And, besides, each book is replete with stirring adventures among the four-footed denizens of the wilderness; so that a feast of useful knowledge is served up, with just that class of stirring incidents so eagerly welcomed by all boys with red blood in their veins. For sale wherever books are sold, or sent prepaid for 50 cents each by the publishers.

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Copyright, 1912, M. A. Donohue & Co.

CONTENTS

Chapter Page

              I—A Fashionable Mother 7
             II—Ethel Hollister 14
            III—Grandmother Hollister 18
             IV—A Pink Tea 23
              V—An invitation to Aunt Susan 29
             VI—Aunt Susan Arrives 41
            VII—Aunt Susan Makes Friends 48
           VIII—Ethel is Invited to Visit 51
             IX—Ethel and Aunt Susan Start 55
              X—The Journey 58
             XI—The Next Day 62
            XII—Ethel Learns to Cook 65
           XIII—A Little Drive 68
            XIV—Some Confidences 72
             XV—A New Ethel 81
            XVI—Aunt Susan's Trials 84
           XVII—Cousin Kate Arrives 88
          XVIII—Selecting the Costume 90
            XIX—Ethel Meets Her Uncle and Aunt 97
             XX—Gathering of the "Ohios" 103
            XXI—The Trip up the River 109
           XXII—An Evening in Camp 115
          XXIII—The Legend of the Muskingum River 120
           XXIV—Ethel's First Day in Camp 141
            XXV—Ethel's First Lesson 144
           XXVI—A Loss and a Dinner 147
          XXVII—A Discovery 153
         XXVIII—Mattie's Story 159
           XXIX—Mattie Starts Afresh 167
            XXX—Aunt Susan Comes 172
           XXXI—Back To Aunt Susan's 175

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HOW ETHEL HOLLISTER BECAME A CAMP FIRE GIRL

CHAPTER I

A FASHIONABLE MOTHER

"No indeed, Kate!" ejaculated Mrs. Hollister emphatically, "Ethel has no time to join any Camp Fire Girls or Girl Scout Societies. She has her home and school duties, while her leisure is fully occupied. At present I know with whom she associates. As I understand it, these girls form themselves into a Company with a Guardian or Leader. They wear certain uniforms with emblems on the waists and sleeves, as well as a ring and bands of beads on their heads, all of which savors of conspicuousness, and it seems to me ridiculous."

"But, Aunt Bella," replied her niece, "think of what it makes of these girls. It teaches them to take care of themselves. They very often sleep out of doors for two months and get an honor for it."

"Yes, imagine a delicate girl like Ethel doing that," rejoined Mrs.
Hollister. "Why, she'd contract pneumonia or consumption right away."

"But if she were delicate she wouldn't be allowed to do so unless by the advice of a physician. Then for one month she's obliged to give up sodas and candies between meals."

"Yes, and isn't that silly? Why, any girl can do that without belonging to a society."

"Well, they become healthy and strong; they play all kinds of out of door athletic games; they swim, dive, undress in deep water, paddle or row twenty miles in any five days; they learn to sail all kinds of boats for fifty miles during the summer, ride horse back, bicycle, skate, climb mountains, and even learn how to operate an automobile."

"There, Kate, stop; you make me nervous. Now what good is all such exercise to a girl?"