The Meadow-Brook Girls Under Canvas by Janet Aldridge
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the moment. Tommy's cries of alarm however, soon brought Harriet to a
realization of her surroundings. The girl bounded from her bed. "Tommy, oh, Tommy! What is it?" Tommy fairly flew to what she supposed was the cot of her companion and threw herself full force upon it. She fell upon a soft body. "Get off! Get into your own bed. What do you mean by jumping on me?" demanded an angry voice that Grace even in her great fright, knew at once did not belong to her companion. "Get out of here!" The words were accompanied by a violent push. Tommy Thompson was thrown from the cot to the floor, on which she landed heavily. "Thave me!" she screamed. "Oh, thave me!" "You get in here again and I will call the guardian," declared the girl into whose cot Tommy had thrown herself. "I heard thomething growl," shivered Tommy. "It is the supper you ate," suggested Harriet "I don't wonder you heard growls. You ate more than any of the rest of us." "She's haunted," suggested the girl on the cot. Then suddenly she whispered: "Sh-h-h-h!" A guardian came hurrying into the tent, holding a lantern above her head. Neither Harriet nor Tommy had seen her before. Tommy sat in the middle of the floor the picture of woe. Harriet stood near by with a look of deep |
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