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The Meadow-Brook Girls Afloat

CHAPTER XIV
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All we have to do is to take them out and lay them in the sun an hour or so afterwards.

As soon as the dishes dry off they are ready for another meal to be served on them." "Ithn't that jutht like a man ?" demanded Tommy.
"This is Willow Island," Billy informed them after they had mounted a ridge that commanded a view of about a quarter of the island.
"It used to be," answered Harriet.

"We have rechristened it." "What have you named it ?" said Billy, regarding her inquiringly.
"We have named it the 'Island of Delight.' How do you like it ?" "Great!" shouted the boys in chorus.
"Have you been all over it yet ?" asked Sam.
"No, we have not," replied Jane, and with truth, for they had not yet explored the entire island.

They were going to do so that day.
Harriet wanted to test their woodsmanship, so she skilfully led the boys toward the spot where the "Red Rover" had been so successfully secreted during the time the boys had been searching for them.

By making a wide detour Harriet finally brought up right over the place where the cave and the secret creek lay.
Jane turned away that they might not see her laughter.


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