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Marjorie's Vacation by Carolyn Wells
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with its memory.

Carter had cleaned up the veranda, though powder marks still
showed in some places.

"Why, girls," exclaimed Marjorie, "here's our pennyroyal extract!
I had forgotten every single thing about it. The high old time we
had that day swept it all out of my head."

"I remembered it," said Molly, "but I thought it had to extract
itself for a week."

"No, four days is enough. It must be done now; it smells so,
anyway."

The girls all sniffed at the pails of spicy-smelling water, and,
after wisely dipping their fingers in it and sniffing at them,
they concluded it was done.

"It's beautiful," said Marjorie; "I think it's a specially fine
extract, and we'll have no trouble in selling heaps of it. Don't
let's tell anybody until we've made a whole lot of money; and then
we'll tell Grandma it's for the Dunns, and she'll be so surprised
to think we could do it."

"Where are the bottles?" asked Stella. "I can finish up the
labels, while you girls are filling the bottles and tying the
corks in."

"Let's tie kid over the top," suggested Molly, "like perfume
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