“Did you ever see a more wonderful day?”
The four Outdoor Girls, in Mollie Billette’s touring car and with Mollieherself at the wheel, were at the present moment rushing wildly over a dustycountry road at the rate of thirty miles an hour.
Grace Ford was sitting in front with Mollie, while Betty Nelson and AmyBlackford “sprawled,” to use Mollie’s sarcastic and slightlyexaggerated description, “all over the tonneau.”
“You look as if you had never done a real day’s work in yourlife,” said Mollie, with a disapproving glance over her shoulder at thegirls in the tonneau.
“We never have,” returned quiet Amy, with a grin.
“And we are proud of it,” added Betty, as she defiantly settled herfeet still more comfortably on the foot rail. “Why should we be energeticwhen it is so much easier to be lazy?”
“There the proper spirit speaks,” applauded Grace Ford from thefront. “I think I shall have to change places with you, Betty. It’sfar too exciting up here with Mollie. She insists upon staging near collisionsevery few feet! thus keeping me awake!”
“Great heavens!” cried Mollie, pressing an impatient foot upon theaccelerator to which the great car responded with an eager purring, “didany one ever give us the mista