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DRAKE OF TROOP ONE SCOUT DRAKE IN WAR TIME COXSWAIN DRAKE OF THE SEASCOUTS PEMROSE LORRY: CAMP FIRE GIRL
Not a remote sign of a biplane decorated the sky overhead. Frontispiece. See page 171.
PEMROSE LORRY
CAMP FIRE GIRL
BY ISABEL HORNIBROOK
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY
NANA FRENCH BICKFORD
BOSTON LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY 1921
Copyright, 1921,
By Little, Brown, and Company.
All rights reserved
Published October, 1921
Norwood Press Set up and electrotyped by J. S. Cushing Co. Norwood, Mass., U. S. A.
TO THE MEMORY OF MY MOTHER, VETERAN AUTHOR, WHO FIRST HAD AN ADMIRATION FOR THE WISE WOMAN WHO SAVED THE CITY, THIS STORY IS DEDICATED.
PREFACE
This, the first story written upon the latest and unique conquest of the age, the conquest of empty Space, with the subsequent reaching out to the Heavenly Bodies, has the permission of the conquering inventor, Professor Robert H. Goddard.
May it bring to every Camp Fire in America, and to boys as well, the romance of the transcendent achievement, beside which all dressing of fiction pales!
The Author also acknowledges her indebtedness to Professor Frank G. Speck for permission to reprint the music of the Leaf Dance.
CONTENTS
CHAPTERPAGE
I.A Quaker Gun1
II.Gimcrack Ice20
III.The Wrong Side of Her Dream31
IV.The Second Wreck40
V.She Saved a City49
VI.A Hotspur60
VII.The Pinnacle69
VIII.A Usurper78
IX.Jack at a Pinch86
X.Camp Fire Sisters98
XI.Mother Earth’s Romance109
XII.Old Round-Top124
XIII.Cobweb Weed134
XIV.Stoutheart147
XV.Airdrawn Aëroplanes160
XVI.The Council Fire174
XVII.A Novel Santa Claus190
XVIII.Reprisals207
XIX.A Record Flight229
XX.The Search244
XXI.The Man Killer262
XXII.A June Woman280
XXIII.The Celestial Climax296
ILLUSTRATIONS
Not a remote sign of a biplane decorated the sky overheadFrontispiece
“Oh! de-ar Mammy Moon–what a shock she’ll get”PAGE 2
“Keep cool! Don’t stir! I’ll reach you in a moment!”86
The man looked up at her, some dash of whimsical fire mastering weakness268
PEMROSE LORRY
CAMP FIRE GIRL