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The Meadow-Brook Girls Afloat

CHAPTER XI
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We are some distance from another stove," reminded Harriet.
"I--I can't find the oven," wailed Margery.
"Don't you know why ?" "No-o." "That is strange." "Where is the oven ?" "There isn't any on this stove.

Hadn't you discovered that yet, you silly ?" "No--oven ?" repeated Buster.
"No.

No oven." "Then I've mixed my custard for nothing ?" "I am afraid you have unless you can turn the mixture to some other purpose." Margery stared at Harriet in silence, then carefully setting the dish on the little shelf above the stove she sat down on the floor and burst into tears.
Harriet left her frying pan, and, taking Buster firmly by an arm, lifted the girl to her feet and led her out to the after deck.
"Wha--at are you go--oing to do ?" "Bathe your face for you and set you down on the deck to cool off," replied Harriet.
"You knew all the time that there wasn't any oven," sobbed Buster.
"Yes, of course I did.

So should you have known.

I let you go on--" "Because you are mean," interjected the unhappy Margery.
"No.


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