Betty Gordon at Mountain Camp

This doesn't look like the street I came up through! exclaimed Betty Gordon. "These funny streets, with their dear old-fashioned houses, all seem, so much alike! And if there are any names stuck up at the corners they must hide around behind the post when I come by like squirrels in the woods. "I declare, there is a queer little shop stuck right in there between two of those refined-looking, if poverty-stricken, boarding-houses. Dear me! how many come-down-in-the-world families have to take 'paying guests' to help out. Not like the Peabodys, but really needy people. What is it Bobby calls 'em? 'P.G.s'-'paying guests.'

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Alice B. Emerson was a house pseudonym used in the early twentieth century by the Stratemeyer Syndicate to publish two series of books for girls featuring the heroines Ruth Fielding and Betty Gordon. This one is about a young girl's adventures at a mountain camp.

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In the middle of the display window which was divided into four not very large panes was arranged on a cross of bright metal a knitted over-blouse of the very newest burnt orange shade. The work was exquisitely done as Betty could see even from outside the shop and she did hope it would fit her.