Helen said.) Then the houseless girls were
allowed to "pitch camp," as it were.
"It _is_ just like camping out," cried Belle Tingley.
"Only there's no scratchy and smelly balsam for beds, and our clothes
won't get all stuck up with chewing gum," said Lluella Fairfax.
"Chewing gum! Hear the girl," scoffed Ann Hicks. "You mean spruce gum."
"Isn't that about the same?" demanded Lluella, with some spirit. "You chew
it, don't you?"
"I don't know. I wouldn't chew spruce gum unless it was first properly
prepared. I tried it once," replied Ann, "and got my jaws so gummed up
that I might as well have had the lockjaw."
"It is according to what season you get the gum," explained Helen. "Now,
see here, girls: We ought to have a name for this camp."
"Oh, oh!"
"Quite so!"
"'Why not?" were some of the responses to this suggestion.
"Let's call it 'Sweet Dreams,'" said one girl. "That's an awfully pretty
name for a camp, I think. We called ours that, last summer on the banks of
the Vingie River."
"Ya-as," drawled Heavy. "Over across from the soap factory. I know the
place. 'Sweet Dreams,' indeed! Ought to have called it 'Sweet Smells,'"
"I think 'Camp Loquacity' will fit _this_ camp better," Ruth said bluntly.
"We all talk at once. Goodness! how does _one_ person ever get a sheet
smooth on a bed?"
Helen came to help her, and just then Mrs. Tellingham herself appeared in
the hall.
"I am glad to announce, girls," she said, with some cheerfulness, "that
the fire is under control."
"Oh, goody!" cried Heavy. "Can we go over there to sleep to-night?"
"No. Nor for many other nights, if at all," the preceptress said firmly.
"The West Dormitory is badly damaged. Of course, no girl need expect to
find much that belongs to her intact. I am sorry. What I can replace, I
will. We must be cheerful and thankful that no life was lost."
"What did I tell you?" muttered the fleshy girl. "Those firemen from
Lumberton always save the cellar."
"Now," said Mrs. Tellingham, "the girl
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Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo (September 29, 1864December 31, 1936) was an essayist, novelist, poet, playwright and philosopher from Spain.
John Middleton Murry (August 6, 1889 March 12, 1957) was an English writer. A prominent critic, Murry is best remembered for his association with Katherine Mansfield, whom he married, as her second husband, in 1918. Following her death, he edited her work. He was educated at Brasenose College, Oxford, along with the writer Joyce Cary, a lifelong friend.