The Meadow-Brook Girls Under Canvas; Or, Fun and Frolic in the Summer Camp

g to the sea shore with them, Grace?" said Miss Elting with a r

g. I'm going to thtay here with the girlt

lude you in my plans for the summer. I have a fine vacation planned f

shook th

rom here. How would you young women enjoy spending your

tentth?" int

hat sort of thing, right in the heart of the P

th there?" questioned

no sn

quito

to say, "is for young girls and young women, and is part of the Camp Girls' Association, a large and growing organ

pted Grace. "My fat

girls during their stay in camp. I am to be one of them this summer. I had planned to take you four girls there after the close of school, but

e great, girls? But," she added, her face sobering, "I d

t mine would not," a

theen to that," spoke up

xcept in your case. Your mother wishes to talk the matter ov

my confidently. "I'll make them let

I ho

he know a

s why I proposed just now that we return to the village. We shall have a chance to t

kth know about i

, de

id they

ut that if you insisted, they supposed you would have to go to th

d her face i

good for them," averred

ve to obey the rules when you get to camp, and they are quite strict. There are so many girls there, that rather strict regu

ommy wisely. "You thay that Har

yet,

tarted slowly toward the village. All at on

ce!" called

rriet what you have sa

lace to an amused smile as she watched the light-footed Tommy speedin

fuse the story if she tries to tell it. Mrs. Burrell wished

ead a little higher than usual. She wanted to impress upon Miss Eltin

burst like a miniature cyclone. Her face was flushed and her eyes sparkled. Her white dress was cru

rell and her mother sat sewing on one of Harriet's dresses which, though the young w

e excited Tommy, believing that

y! What is i

Oh, I won't tell you. It ith too good

g that nothing was amiss with Grace. "I am not a good g

ed Grace. "We're all going, an

derstand anything from your jumble of words," admonished Harriet, layi

n. "I want to talk, then I want to danthe. Oh, I'm tho happ

y. "Do sit down and compose yourself. Where ar

. They're coming from over there." Harriet smiled as Grace waved an

m growing curious. Whe

her chair and began d

and ever

s about to jump out of the bag, but made no effort to assist Grace in telli

e're going away. Don

mmy, I

fid

it that we

birdth thing and the frogth croak and the mothquitoeth bite y

ds, an expression of com

he girls. Perhaps Miss Elting can tell us what it is all about. I am

k her head

th a stamp of her foot. "I'

Burrell and Harriet. Margery and Hazel had followed her in, and were now shaking hand

However, there may be a few dry details left for me

but she is too excited to be intelligible. Please tell

has begun," suggested Miss Elti

haste to blurt out the full story had become hopelessly tangled. She hesit

ou four girls, it has been decided, are to go with me to the summer camp

azing steadily at the speaker. "It is qui

y Meadow-Brook Girls accompany me, and with the consent of the parents of each girl, I have arranged for you to rem

and, and--"

the retht, Mith Elting,

ad forehead, made more pronounced the undeniable plainness of her features. But when animated that face was fairly transformed. As Miss Elting had

now it will not be possible for me to go with you, much as I shoul

enly finding her voice again. "I'll pay f

's face

ou, but wholly impossible. You know Miss Elting, that I could not afford a vacation such as that, much as I should like to go. O

ive no remuneration for their services, but each is entitled, if she wishes, to take one girl with her as her guest. The girl so taken would be a member of the camp, just the same as the others. She would in no sense be a charity member either. She would be on exactly the same footing as her compa

to thay to that?" deman

htful gaze on the smil

all the time, but said ne

, de

rrell's neck, kissing her affectionately. From her mother Harriet turned her attention

h us," answer

th me? Didn't I firtht tell y

end, kissing her lightly, at the s

in the secret all the

't I nearly break my prethiouth neck to get down here to tell you the good

e a narrow escape from being run down

er little friend w

we go?" s

the day afte

ut how about clothes. What do the girl

ess alike, o

to go. You see I have nothin

ed speaking, unheed

id or Roman-striped silk at the neck. The skirt for the large girls is plain with a wide box pleat at the back. The skirt for t

for a pocket,"

to understand?"

've been at work on my camp dress all the time and didn't know it." Harriet laughed excite

mmy, bobbing her

white silk cord about the crown with the name of the camp in white on the blue background. I forgot to say that

arriet for the sake of continuing the conversa

plied to a number of squaws gathering for a confab, and corresponds to the 'pow-wow' of t