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Title: Ethel Hollister's Second Summer as a Campfire Girl
Author: Irene Elliott Benson
Release Date: November 26, 2004 [EBook #14169]
Language: English
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Ethel Hollister's Second Summer as a Campfire Girl
By IRENE ELLIOTT BENSON
1912
CONTENTS
SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING BOOK
I--ETHEL'S PLANS
II--ETHEL ENTERS COLLEGE
III--ETHEL AND HARVEY BECOME FIRM FRIENDS
IV--ETHEL'S SECOND TRIP
V--CAMP AGAIN
VI--UNCLE JOHN'S
VII--MRS. HOLLISTER'S VISIT TO CAMP
VIII--THE SCOUTS ARRIVE
IX--NORA GIVES SERVICE
X--A HEROINE
XI--BREAKING UP OF CAMP AND A SURPRISE
XII--MATTIE MAKES GOOD
XIII--JUDGE SANDS AND KATE MARRY
XIV--A BIRTHDAY PRESENT
XV--MRS. HOLLISTER ENTERTAINS
XVI--CHRISTMAS EVE
XVII--CHRISTMAS DAY
XVIII--ANOTHER SURPRISE
XIX--MR. CASEY BUYS A HOUSE
XX--ARCHIBALD'S CHANGE FOR THE BETTER
SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING BOOK
Ethel would have never become a Camp Fire Girl excepting for her
great-aunt Susan.
Susan Carpenter was her Grandmother Hollister's only sister, living in
Akron, Ohio. Her family consisted of Mr. Thomas Harper and herself. Tom's
parents had been her friends, and when they were taken Aunt Susan legally
adopted him and his little brother Fred, but the younger one died before
graduating, while Tom went through college and was now a rising young
lawyer.
Aunt Susan Carpenter was a philanthropist. At the time of her adopting
the boys she was reputed to be a millionaire. She gave her beautiful home
to the city for an Asylum for partially insane people and endowed it with
fifty thousand dollars, after which the leading men in town raised fifty
thousand more, thereby making it self-supporting. She was also on the
board of managers of
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