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Title: Ethel Morton's Enterprise

Author: Mabell S.C. Smith

Release Date: March 22, 2004 [EBook #11660]

Language: English

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ETHEL MORTON'S ENTERPRISE

By

MABELL S.C. SMITH

CONTENTS

I HOW IT STARTED
II A SNOW MAN AND SEED CATALOGUES
III DOROTHY TELLS HER SECRET
IV GARDENING ON PAPER
V A DEFECT IN THE TITLE
VI WILD FLOWERS FOR HELEN'S GARDEN
VII COLOR SCHEMES
VIII CAVE LIFE
IX "NOTHING BUT LEAVES"
X THE U.S.C. AND THE COMMUNITY
XI THE FLOWER FESTIVAL
XII ENOUGH TO GIVE AWAY
XIII IN BUSINESS
XIV UNCLE DAN'S RESEARCHES
XV FUR AND FOSSILS
XVI FAIRYLAND
XVII THE MISSING HEIRESS

CHAPTER I

HOW IT STARTED

Ethel Morton, called from the color of her eyes Ethel "Blue" to
distinguish her from her cousin, also Ethel Morton, whose brown eyes
gave her the nickname of Ethel "Brown," was looking out of the window at
the big, damp flakes of snow that whirled down as if in a hurry to cover
the dull January earth with a gay white carpet.

"The giants are surely having a pillow fight this afternoon," she
laughed.

"In honor of your birthday," returned her cousin.

"The snowflakes are really as large as feathers," added Dorothy Smith,
another cousin, who had come over to spend the afternoon.

All three cousins had birthdays in January. The Mortons always
celebrated the birthdays of every member of the family, but since there
were three in the same month they usually had one large party and
noticed the other days with less ceremony. This year Mrs. Emerson, Ethel
Brown's grandmother, had invited the whole United Service Club, to which
the girls belonged, to go to New York on a day's expedition. They had
ascended the Woolworth Tower, gone through the Natural History Museum,
seen the historic Jumel Mansion, lunched at a large hotel and gone to
the Hippodrome. Everybody called it a perfectly splendid party, and
Ethel Blue and Doro