THE MOTOR GIRLS

by Margaret Penrose




CHAPTER I

CORA AND HER CAR


"Now you've got it, what are you going to do with it?" asked Jack
Kimball, with a most significant smile at his sister Cora.

"Do with it?" repeated the girl, looking at her questioner in
surprise; then she added, with a fine attempt at sarcasm: "Why, I'm
going to have Jim break it up for kindling wood. It will make such a
lovely blaze on the library hearth. I have always loved blazing
autos."

"Now, sis," objected the tall, handsome boy, as he swung his arm
about the almost equally tall, and even handsomer girl, "don't get
mad."

"Oh, I'm not in the least angry."

"Um! Maybe not. Put I honestly thought--well, maybe you would like
some of the boys to give you a lesson or two in driving the new car.
There's Wally, you know. Ahem! I thought perhaps Wally--"