: The Cruise of the O Moo by Snell Roy J Roy Judson - Family Juvenile fiction; Yachts Juvenile fiction; Mystery and detective stories; Winter Juvenile fiction; Sisters Juvenile fiction; Michigan Lake Juvenile fiction

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ed. They cut classes at times. They passed difficult examinations with some credit. They reveled in the grandeur of the architecture of the buildings of the university. They thrilled at the thought that they were a part of the great throng that daily swarmed from the lecture halls, and were somewhat downcast when they came fully to realize their own insignificance when cast into such a tossing sea of humanity.

Marian, the artist, also had her everyday rounds to make. She caught the 8:15 car downtown five days in the week to labor industriously with charcoal and brush. She saw her Alaskan sketches, which had been praised so often and so highly, picked to pieces by the ruthless criticism of a competent teacher, but she rallied from her first disappointment to resolve for better work in the future. She began to plan how this might be accomplished.

Florence, Marian and Lucile were plain, ordinary, normal girls, yet in one respect they were different from others; at least Lucile and Marian were from the first, and Florence, being the strongest, most physically capable of them all, soon caught their spirit. They had about them a certain fearless outlook on life which is nearly always found in those who have spent many months in the far North--an attitude which seems to say, "Adventure and Trouble, I have met you before. I welcome you and will profit by and conquer you."

Two or three rather ordinary incidents in their life on board the O Moo prove that the life they lived there was, on the whole, a very simple, normal life, yet they also illustrate the indisputable fact that the simplest matters in the world, the casting of a tin can off a boat for instance, may be connected with some interesting and thrilling adventure.

As to that particular tin can, Marian bought it at a grocery store along with twenty-three other cans, filled with some unknown contents and sold at the ridiculously low price of eight cents per can. The reason that the price was so low and the contents unknown was that the labels had, during the process of handling, been accidentally torn off. The cans had been sent on to the retailer and were sold in grab-bag lots of two dozen each.

"You see," the obliging grocer had explained, "there may be only corn or peas in them. Very well, they are even then worth twelve cents a can at the very least. But then again there may be blackberries in thick syrup, worth thirty or forty cents a can. Then what a bargain!"

"Well, girls," Marian exclaimed when she had finished telling of her bargain and they of exclaiming over it, "what shall we have for dinner to-night? Loganberries in thick syrup or sliced pineapple?"

"Oh, pineapple by all means!" Florence exclaimed.

"Good enough for me," smiled Lucile.

"All right. Here goes." Marian stabbed one of the unknown quantities with the can-opener, then applied her nose to the opening.

"Corn!" she exclaimed in disgust.

"Oh, well," consoled Florence, "we can eat corn once. Lucile doesn't care for it, but she can have something else. Here's a bowl; pour it out in that. Then open the loganberries. They'll do."

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