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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