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Title: Pemrose Lorry, Camp Fire Girl
Author: Isabel Katherine Hornibrook
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PEMROSE LORRY
CAMP FIRE GIRL
* * * * *
By
ISABEL HORNIBROOK
DRAKE OF TROOP ONE
SCOUT DRAKE IN WAR TIME
COXSWAIN DRAKE OF THE SEASCOUTS
PEMROSE LORRY: CAMP FIRE GIRL
* * * * *
[Illustration: Not a remote sign of a biplane decorated the sky overhead.
Frontispiece. See page 171.]
PEMROSE LORRY
CAMP FIRE GIRL
by
ISABEL HORNIBROOK
With Illustrations by Nana French Bickford
[Illustration]
Boston
Little, Brown, and Company
1921
Copyright, 1921,
By Little, Brown, and Company.
All rights reserved
Published October, 1921
Norwood Press
Set up and electrotyped by J. S. Cushing Co.
Norwood, Mass., U. S. A.
TO THE MEMORY OF MY MOTHER, VETERAN AUTHOR,
WHO FIRST HAD AN ADMIRATION FOR THE WISE WOMAN
WHO SAVED THE CITY, THIS STORY IS DEDICATED.
PREFACE
This, the first story written upon the latest and unique conquest of the
age, the conquest of empty Space, with the subsequent reaching out to
the Heavenly Bodies, has the permission of the conquering inventor,
Professor Robert H. Goddard.
May it bring to every Camp Fire in America, and to boys as well, the
romance of the transcendent achievement, beside which all dressing of
fiction pales!
The Author also acknowledges her indebtedness to Professor Frank G.
Speck for permis
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