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Title: The curlytops on Star Island : or, Camping out with Grandpa
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Garis, Howard Roger, 1873-1962
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Publisher: New York : Cupples & Leon
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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of the rocks and pebbles his brotherand sister had used. **Come on, Janet I Were going! calledTed in a loud whisper, as his sister lookedat him. He also made motions with hishands to show that he and Hal were readyto start for the cave. Janet saw that her little brother was toobusy playing to need her to stay with him—at least for a time. Still she could not leavehim alone without calling her mother orNora to watch what he did. Very quietly, while Baby William wastrying to make one stone stay on top of an-other in one side of the castle he was making,Janet stepped up to the flap of the tent, in-side which her mother was sitting sewing. *^Im going with Ted and Hal into thewoods, said the little girl. *^Will youwatch Trouble, Mother? ^^Yes, Janet. But be careful, and dontgo too far. Janet did not answer but hurried away.Of course she did not do just right, for sheknew her mother would not want her to goto the cave, nor would Mrs. Martin have letTed and Hal go had she known it. But the
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HAL WALKED BOLDLY INTO THE DARK CAVE.The Curlytops on Star Island Page 224 THE K8W YOfiKPUBLIC LIBIUHT In the Cave 221 Curlytops and Hal were very desirous offinding the blue stones and of seeing if therewas any gold in them, and they did not stopto thiri of what was right and what waswrong. **Hurry up now! exclaimed Hal as hewent on ahead up the path that led from be-hind the tents to the queer cave. *We wantto get there before anybody knows it. WhatU we do if the tramps are there?asked Ted. ^^They wont be there, said Hal, thoughhow he could tell that he did not say. **IVe got a little hatchet and we can cutdown some clubs, said Ted. He hadbrought with him a little Boy Scout hatchet,with a covering over the sharp blade. Hisgrandfather had given it to Ted, but hadtold him never to take it out alone. But Teddid, and this was another wrong thing. Im afraid if I speak of all the wTongthings the Curlytops did that day Id neverfinish mth this story. But it wasnt oftenthey did so many acts

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