General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1922 Original Publisher: Burt Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER V THE BY-STREAM The experiences of a canoe-trip are sometimes more interesting than those of any other kind of outdoor excursions, for there are not only the alternate pleasures of travelling by water and of camping on land, but there is the added joy of awaking each morning to find a new world. When the girls had pulled their canoes upon the bank the preceeding afternoon, and had busied themselves with the unpacking and the erection of the tents, they had hardly realized how beautiful the spot of their encampment was. Now. as they beheld it from their tents in the sunrise, they were deeply impressed. Marjorie was so eager to make the picture a permanent one that she got out her camera before she was fully dressed, and took a snap-shot. Marj, you’re so energetic! yawned Doris, who was still buried beneath her blankets. Probably that’s why you get all the prizes that are going. And I do believe you’ll get this one, too, she added. Not if Ruth Henry knows it! answered Marjorie. Do we swim before breakfast? asked Doris, changing the subject hastily. Or do we get dressed right away in the rest of our clothing?
I don’t think there are any set rules, replied her companion; you can do as you please, I guess. But I thought I’d just wash and run down and see if I might help Frieda. Already the girls in the other tents were stirring, although there had not been any bugle call to awaken them. When Lily Andrews opened her eyes and casually looked at her companion’s bed, she received a shock to see Ruth Henry sitting on the edge, lacing up her shoes. She and Mar…
