Subject: MSR The Outdoor Girls At Rainbo Author: Laura Lee Hope Uploaded By: HOST Comp Joots Date: 11/29/2002 File: The Outdoor Girls At Rainbow Lake.lit (206880 bytes) Estimated Download Time (53797 baud): < 1 minute Download Count: 5 Equipment: Windows computer or Pocket PC Needs: MS Reader Keywords: The Outdoor Girls At Rainbow Lake or the Stirring Cruise of the Motor Boat Gem, Laura Lee Hope, Girls Fiction The Outdoor Girls At Rainbow Lake or The Stirring Cruise of the Motor Boat Gem by Laura Lee Hope. Hope is best known for the girls series books she wrote. This is the start of one of her lessor known series. CHAPTER I JUST FUN "DID you ever see a more wonderful day?" The four Outdoor Girls, in Mollie Billette's touring car and with Mollie herself at the wheel, were at the present moment rushing wildly over a dusty country road at the rate of thirty miles an hour. Grace Ford was sitting in front with Mollie, while Betty Nelson and Amy Blackford "sprawled," to use Mollie's sarcastic and slightly exaggerated description, "all over the tonneau." "You look as if you had never done a real day's work in your life," said Mollie, with a disapproving glance over her shoulder at the girls in the tonneau. "We never have," returned quiet Amy, with a grin. "And we are proud of it," added Betty, as she defiantly settled her feet still more comfortably on the foot rail. "Why should we be energetic when it is so much easier to be lazy?