The Girls of Hillcrest Farm — Amy Bell Marlowe

" ...] "I'd look nice going down that ladder. I guess not, says Con " and she shook her head so vigorously that all the little jet trimmings upon her bonnet danced and sparkled in the gaslight just as her beadlike, black eyes snapped and danced. "We-we're in danger, Lyddy " cried 'Phemie, tremulously. "Oh, the boy " exclaimed Lyddy, and flew to the kitchen, just in time to see the Smith family sliding down the plank into the laboratory-the two girls ahead, then Mother Smith, then Johnny Smith, and then the ...]."