narrative of outdoor life.

"THE MEADOW-BROOK GIRLS ACROSS COUNTRY" relates the adventures of the
girls and their guardian on their homeward march from Camp Wau-Wau.
Their meeting with a number of boys on a hike, who styled themselves the
Tramp Club, and the subsequent wager made with them by the Meadow-Brook
Girls to race them to the town of Meadow-Brook, furnished the theme for
the narrative. While following the fortunes of the road the girls met
with numerous adventures. The reader will recall their encounter with
the tramps, their rescue by Sybarina, the Gipsy, and the night spent in
the Gipsy camp where Harriet, disguised as a Gipsy, told the fortune of
George Baker the leader of the Tramp Club, and at the same time under
the pretense of revealing his past rated him soundly for a trick which
he and his band had played upon the girls.

Once back in Meadow-Brook the girls had settled down to a busy winter in
high school. Now that summer had come again, accompanied by Miss Elting,
they had planned to spend their vacation on Lake Winnipesaukee, aboard a
houseboat owned by Miss Elting's brother.

The "Red Rover" in its coat of bright new paint looked really fine that
morning. As the girls neared it the odor of fresh paint was borne to
their nostrils on the breeze that drifted in from the lake. Full of
enthusiasm the girls hurried aboard the boat. There was much to be done,
and all were eager to settle their home and to begin the fascinating
life that was before them, a life that not one of the girls had ever
before enjoyed. The painters came soon after, and began putting on the
second coat of paint. The girls, as soon as they had donned aprons and
gloves, started to put on the second coat in the interior of the boat.
The windows were on hand, ready to be set in place and everyone went to