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

Camp Wau-Wau here?

on into the woods. Miss Elting was directed to a three-seated buck-board wagon. Jasper, the handy man about the camp was on the

trunks?" asked

morrow," he an

lender looking buck-

" she decided. "The w

If the wagon goes down Margery will go d

der than will you," added Miss Elti

gay party, indeed, but Harriet noted that horse and driver were not well matched. The horse she could plainly see was young and fractious, and she wondered what the old man would do should th

been necessary had they driven direct from Meadow-Brook. The fields through which they were driving were green, the air was fr

s they knew and discussed the country through which they were passing until

hing nithe?" q

a yell,

? I can

chool or a college yell. We are the Meadow-Brook Girl

a yell, a loud one," urge

g smiled t

," she answered. "Harriet, you will have to pr

fly leaf of a book that she had brought along to read, but had not up to this moment

't you goin

neck to see what was being written, but Harriet held the cover of the boo

r another person's shoulder

r to be polite when she ith away fr

arriet. "Listen, girls a

, rah

rah

ook, Mead

boom

n the chorus that welled forth from the throats of the Meadow-Brook Girls, who had taken up the yell with a will. Tommy'

ctively. Harriet who occupied the seat beside him, stol

used to girls, aren

n order to catch more clearly Tommy's "thith boom ah!" which always sent them into screams of laughter. Finally Tommy became angry and refused to yell. But the little lisping girl was like an April day. Her frowns of displeasure were replaced by

e top of a high knoll in the road, when below them was revealed the dark blue of a fore

iss Elting informed them. "Are

e were to get lost in

" piped Tommy. "I'd

even though you are not l

woods do we go?"

e, I reckon,"

aimed Harriet. "I never dreamed that I should have such a glorious vacati

now the exact number. You will find a ha

neral assent t

ise to the girls. They showed their further appreciation by eating every crumb of the luncheon, while Jasper cont

est birds, varied now and then by the hoarse caw of a distant crow whose voice perhaps had started the woodland chorus. The fragrance of the woods mingled del

clared with a shiver. "Oh, Mr. Jathper,

y w

ained Harriet,

," answered the

ly glorious?"

rful for words,"

the tires of the heavy logging wagons, but in general the way was free of obstructions, though the bushes in the road tickled the hide of the young horse until he began to prance from one side of the road to the othe

e is perfectly safe?" question

for nigh onto a week. Jest

though the others appeared to be. Harriet watched the

ared the road with a single leap sideways. He had been pricked by the sharp top of a bush at the instant the reins were brought down on his back. The reins not being under

a crunching g

, thave me!"

he vehicle and left dangling from the low hanging limbs of

hout the least trace of excitement in her voice. Hazel pl

end of the axle broken off short. At the same instant the horse sprang sharply to the left e

irst from the seat, landing heavily on the ground. His head coming into co

ell she snatched at the reins. She caught one of them, the

the one rein with both hands shot over the dashboard of the wagon as though she had been projected from a cannon. Hazel and

d Miss Elting. "

in, the frantic animal dragging he