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Carolyn Wells
Carolyn Wells (1862-1942) was an American poet, librarian, and mystery writer. Born in Rahway, New Jersey, Wells began her career as a children’s author with such works as At the Sign of the Sphinx (1896), The Jingle Book (1899), and The Story of Betty (1899). After reading a mystery novel by Anna Katharine Green, Wells began focusing her efforts on the genre and found success with her popular Detective Fleming Stone stories. The Clue (1909), her most critically acclaimed work, cemented her reputation as a leading mystery writer of the early twentieth century. In 1918, Wells married Hadwin Houghton, the heir of the Houghton-Mifflin publishing fortune, and remained throughout her life an avid collector of rare and important poetry volumes.
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Hilarity Hall - Carolyn Wells
Carolyn Wells
Hilarity Hall
EAN 8596547019176
DigiCat, 2022
Contact: DigiCat@okpublishing.info
Table of Contents
I. Pillows and Pitchers
II. On the Road
III. The Fun Begins
IV. Annals of Hilarity Hall
V. The Enchanted Princess
VI. Mrs. Lennox
VII. Willing Service
VIII. Hailarious Hospitality
IX. A Welcome Invitation
I. Pillows and Pitchers
CHAPTER I.
Table of Contents
PILLOWS AND PITCHERS.
"Is there any way to pack pillows in pitchers?" said Marjorie, framing herself in the front doorway, one hand grasping recklessly the handles of three large pitchers and both arms full of sofa-pillows.
The group on the veranda looked up at her doubtfully.
Yes,
said brilliant Nan. Have your pitchers bigger than your pillows and the thing is done.
But the pillows are bigger than the pitchers.
Then pack the pitchers in the pillows,
said Betty.
Why, of course! Betty, you 're a genius!
And Marjorie disappeared with her burdens, while the girls on the veranda fell to chattering again like half a dozen shirt-waisted magpies.
Now, I know that a story with eight heroines is an imposition upon even the gentlest of readers; but you see there were eight girls in the Summer Club, and when their president, Marjorie Bond, proposed that they go down to Blue Beach and spend a fortnight in her father's cottage all by themselves, the whole club rose up as one girl and voted ay.
Objections were disposed of as fast as they were raised. Permission? The girls were sure that the sixteen parents concerned could be persuaded to see the matter in a favorable light. Expense? That should be divided equally among them all. Trouble? Would be more than compensated by the fun. Luggage? Not so very much required; the house was completely furnished, except the linen and silver, and each girl should take her share. Burglars? That idea caused some apprehension; but when Marjorie said that Uncle Ned and Aunt Molly would be right next door, plans were suggested sufficient to scare any reasonably cautious burglar out of his wits. And so the preliminaries had been arranged, and the date decided upon, and the day had come.
It was Thursday morning, and they were to leave on the noon train; and now. although ten o'clock had struck, six sailor-hatted girls were gathered on the Bonds' veranda, hurriedly making final arrangements and frantically trying to remember what were the most important things they had forgotten.
It's like a fire,
Jessie Carroll was saying. "You know people always save their old trash and leave their best things to burn up. Now I'm sure I 've packed just the very things we won't want, and left at home the things we 'll need most. And that reminds me—Nan, can't I put my best hat in your box? I just had to take my down comfortable, and it was so puffy—it would n't leave room for anything else."
Oh, don't take your best hat,
cried Betty Miller. We 're not going down to Blue Beach to dress up and be giddy. It's so late in the season none of the summer boarders will be there, and we 're just going to wear flannel frocks all day, and tramp in the woods, and loll in the hammocks, and get brown as berries and hungry as hunters and uncivilized as-—as Hottentots.
Yes, Betty; but remember somebody has to care for these hungry Hottentots,
said Mrs. Bond, smiling. Are n't you afraid, girls, that you 'll get tired of it? And you 'll find that there's a great deal of work connected with housekeeping if you do it all yourselves.
Oh, no, Mrs. Bond,
said Hester Laverack. I just love to look after things; I don't mind housework a bit. Oh, here's Helen. What's your misfortune, my pretty maid?
Helen Morris came up on the veranda, and dropped into a big wicker chair, and fanned herself with her hat.
"Girls, I'm exhausted. You know I said I'd take all the things for afternoon tea, but I had no idea there were so many. Why, I packed a whole barrel, and they 're not all in yet. To be sure, it's mostly tissue-paper and excelsior, but I was so afraid they'd break. And I could not get the tea-cozy in at all, or the Dresden cups; I'd hate to break them."
Yes,
said Betty, sympathetically, "don't break the tea-cozy, whatever you do, if it's that pretty yellow satin one. But you 've no ingenuity, Nell. Why don't you wear it down on your head? Then you 'll look like a drum-major."
"I will, if you 'll all obey my orders. Well, this won't do for me. I must go back and reason with those tea-things. I just ran over a minute because 1 saw you all here.