Just Fun



"Did you ever see a more wonderful day?"

The four Outdoor Girls, in Mollie Billette's touring car and with Mollie
herself at the wheel, were at the present moment rushing wildly over a
dusty country road at the rate of thirty miles an hour.

Grace Ford was sitting in front with Mollie, while Betty Nelson and Amy
Blackford "sprawled," to use Mollie's sarcastic and slightly exaggerated
description, "all over the tonneau."

"You look as if you had never done a real day's work in your life," said
Mollie, with a disapproving glance over her shoulder at the girls in the
tonneau.

"We never have," returned quiet Amy, with a grin.

"And we are proud of it," added Betty, as she defiantly settled her feet
still more comfortably on the foot rail. "Why should we be energetic when
it is so much easier to be lazy?"

"There the proper spirit speaks," applauded Grace Ford from the front. "I
think I shall have to change places with you, Betty. It's far too exciting
up here with Mollie. She insists upon staging near collisions every few
feet--thus keeping me awake!"

"Great heavens!" cried Mollie, pressing an impatient foot upon the