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Updated: June 14, 2025
She considered that she was being deprived of her rights, and was of less importance than the other girls, because she was dumb on the stage. "Why! even Bobby Hargrew," she complained, "with her silly sailor part, has lines to repeat, besides that sailor's hornpipe in the first act. Of course, you girls would wish the least important part onto me." "What nonsense, Hester!" cried Jess.
This was pretty strong language from the doctor's daughter. At the moment Bobby Hargrew appeared, whistling, and with her hands in her coat pockets. She was evidently practicing her manly stride. But she did not grin when she saw the juniors approaching. Instead, in a most dolorous voice she sang out, quoting the witches' chant: "'Double, double; toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble.
But she started after the shabby figure of the Latin teacher and caught up with him before Professor Dimp had reached the end of the next block for Bobby Hargrew had taken the palm in the quarter mile dash at the Girls' Branch League Field Day and there were few girls at Central High who could compete with her as a sprinter.
"If it is, I'll add an extra fifty to my Red Cross subscription," rejoined his father with some tartness. "Well, that's something!" Bobby Hargrew said quickly. "We want to boost the fund all we can. And what do you think?" "My brain has stopped functioning entirely since I got so bothered by that bank-note," declared Laura Belding, shaking her head. "I can't think." "Mr.
Tom Hargrew, Bobby's father, had been kind enough to send the girls' tents up to the island with the men he had directed to repair the cabin, and the party expected to find the camp pitched, and everything ready for them when they arrived at Acorn Island.
"Goodness me!" cried Laura, at last; "it isn't what do we want, but how little can we get along with! Discard everything possible, girls do!" Bobby Hargrew declared Lil Pendleton had started to pack a Saratoga trunk, and that she had been obliged to point out to Lil that neither of the motorboats was large enough to ship such a piece of baggage.
Mann will look us over and give out the parts that afternoon in the small hall. Nobody must be absent. We want this show to be the biggest success that ever was." "It won't be if Gee Gee can help it," growled Bobby Hargrew, shaking her curls.
Bobby Hargrew met Laura and Jess on the edge of the crowd, for she had been unable to worm herself into the middle of it again, and told them swiftly of the boys' departure to hunt for the car that had done the damage. "And that's just like the boys!" exclaimed Jess Morse, with some exasperation. "To run away and desert us!" "I don't know but I'm glad," said Laura.
"Right-o, Jess!" crowed Bobby Hargrew. "We-ell!" murmured Lily doubtfully. "Come, Miss Steele Janet," said Laura, pleadingly. "I know you can help us. Hester, being the biggest girl, was to lead in certain figures on the ice. You could easily learn them. And you can wear her costume, I know." "Why I " "You don't know anything of the kind, Laura Belding," snapped Lily, interrupting Janet.
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