Zusammenfassung
Zusammenfassung von Dorothys Reisen
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Readers who enjoy warm, old-fashioned girls' stories, summer trips by steamer and train, spirited friendships, mysteries of family and birth, and a close look at Nova Scotia's towns, gardens and woods.
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Dorothy's Travels is a girls' adventure novel by Evelyn Raymond, who died in 1910. It is a sequel to Dorothy's Schooling, and it follows a foundling girl named Dorothy Chester through one long summer vacation. She leaves the Hudson River by steamer, passes through New York, and sails on to Nova Scotia with her schoolmate Molly Breckenridge and a nervous teacher, Miss Greatorex.
The book gives you a lively trip full of small disasters, new friends and sharp period detail. There are steamboats, ox carts, fish yards, a sailboat in the fog, and a farm at the edge of a huge forest. Behind the fun runs a quieter question that Dorothy cannot stop asking: who were her real parents? Kind grown-ups around her seem to know more than they say.
Let us begin where Dorothy's travels begin, on the deck of the steamer Mary Powell, with a friend who has no business being aboard.
In dieser Zusammenfassung
- 1A mountain friend sails too farFree
- 2A shiny old man and two lost purses
- 3Lost and found in the great city
- 4Aboard the Prince, fog and music
- 5Yarmouth hedges and a bashful boy in a tree
- 6Digby, a Boston mother and an ox cart
- 7A night on the water and a changed boy
- 8Halifax rain, a farm and a runaway ride
- 9What the summer is really about
- 10How the story is told
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A mountain friend sails too far
The story opens on a summer morning at a Hudson River landing. Dorothy is leaving on the steamer Mary Powell with her close school friend Molly Breckenridge and their teacher, Miss Greatorex. Their schoolmates Jim Barlow and Monty Stark have just jumped ashore as the gangplank is pulled in. Then Dorothy sees that Alfaretta Babcock, her untaught friend from the mountain, is still aboard.
Alfaretta came only to say goodbye. At the last second she was seized by a wish to ride a little way on the boat, though she has four cents in her purse. She explains that it is lonely in the mountains and that she cannot see why some people have everything and others have nothing. Her tears and her rough grammar show how much this friendship means to her.
The stewardess, whom everyone calls Fanny, comes down the deck collecting fares and carrying money in loose handfuls without ever making a mistake. Alfaretta hears that the fare is fifteen cents and falls into a panic. She truly believes the captain may drop her in the river. Dorothy tries to calm her and goes to ask Miss Greatorex for money.
This is harder than it sounds. Miss Greatorex is deaf, and her hearing has grown worse since a fire. She is also nervous about her sudden duty, because Miss Penelope Rhinelander gave her strict orders to guard the girls' spending. When Dorothy shouts into her ear, the teacher hands over a pad and pencil instead. Dorothy snatches both girls' purses from the satchel and runs.
She is just in time to see Alfaretta, frightened, tumble down a stair and dash off at the next landing, Cornwall, with a bump on her head. The crowd laughs and the boat moves on. The scene sets the tone of the whole book, in which a kind impulse, a small mistake and a lot of noisy bustle lead to bigger trouble than anyone expects.
The first chapter also gives you the background you need. Dorothy was left as a baby on a doorstep in Baltimore and raised by a retired letter carrier and his wife on a small mountain farm. An unknown friend pays for her schooling. The trip to Nova Scotia is meant to build her strength for the next school year.
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Questions about Dorothys Reisen
What is Dorothy's Travels about?
It follows the foundling Dorothy Chester on a summer trip from the Hudson River through New York to Nova Scotia with her friend Molly and a teacher, with comic mishaps, new friends and a mystery about her parents.
Do I need to read Dorothy's Schooling first?
No. The opening chapter explains who Dorothy is, where she was raised, and what happened at her school, so the story stands on its own, though earlier readers will know some faces.
Who is Melvin Cook, the Bashful Bugler?
He is a shy young bugler on the steamer Prince, the only son of a widow in Yarmouth. The Judge invites him to camp, and his courage proves greater than his shyness suggests.
Where does Dorothy's Travels take place?
It begins on the Hudson River and in New York City, then moves to Yarmouth, Digby, Grand Pré, Halifax and a farm near the woods in Nova Scotia.
Is Dorothy's Travels easy to read?
Yes, in the sense that the chapters are short episodes with clear problems and lively dialogue. Letters, jokes and fast action keep the story moving, so it suits listening as well as reading.