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The Motor Maids by Rose, Shamrock and Thistle

CHAPTER I.—THE FIRST DAY OUT.

“The water’s very black this morning. Lydies wouldn’t bithe in it,” called the voice of the stewardess outside the stateroom door.

“This lydy would,” answered Wilhelmina Campbell from the top berth. “She’s only talking,” she added in a lower tone. “A cold salt bath, please, stewardess.”

“Very well, mum. Will the other lydy have a bath?”

“Nancy, hot or cold?” demanded Billie, dangling one foot out of the berth to attract her friend’s attention.

Groans were the only reply of Nancy Brown.

“Not seasick already, and this only the first night out?”