Marjorie's Busy Days

d with delight by

ayday meant more than it did in vacat

it was an early autumn, many leaves ha

fter breakfast they put on hats and coats for out

gdon, "and let's tele

the two Fultons and Kitt

to have a special chum, s

h all of them, and soon the three g

y were on the ground like a thick carpet. The orchard had many maple

Marjorie, as she led the way, shuffling alon

ied Dick, tumbling dow

performance, and then they all fell into

from its shell, and shaking the dead leaves out of her curls, she said:

use, and came back with several

id King. "Some of us can rak

will, and soon two houses we

ooms. Openings in these partitions made doors, and the furniture was also formed of heaps of le

one family, while Dick, Marjo

d, who lived with one family or the other i

er, and daughter, and they were pleasantly neighborl

as strong in Marjorie, and she d

a good game, so

obbed," said Midget; "and then,

, lying on leaf-couches, fell into a deep, but somewhat noisy slumber

game, so she was allowed to wan

in through the open doors, and endeavored to steal certain valuable silver

lly sneaking away when King awoke, and with a howl pounce

idget wrung their hands in despair as they saw their

by the noise, and added their frighten

went valiantly out to hunt the other marauders. Then the game was for King and his famil

ing Dick, Marjorie found an opportunity to free Kitty

reed to rebuild their houses, combining

ad recently visited one with his f

have porches, and swimming-pools, and g

ed, and soon a fine clubhouse

house, we're a club," s

ie. "Clubs are lots of fun. I mean chil

hy, who had a wholesome fear of

if we're a club," said Dick. "I thi

d Marjorie, who was espec

t the Jinks Club,

! And then we can cut up any jinks we want to,-as l

ean by that?"

were good jinks and bad jinks. She meant just plain fun, o

e to that. We just want to have fu

agreed on this, the J

dent," volunte

dent?" asked Gladys. "And does

. "I know clubs usually have only on

d a secretary and treasurer and such things, so we'll

nced Rosy Posy, "an' Bof

"you and Boff and all the rest of us. Then,

Dick. "Just a few about meeting

ery Saturday," said Marjorie, w

I know Mother won't let

said King. "Just whenever we're al

but Marjorie didn't

," she said, "unless we have dues

oney for other things besides dues to an old

Marjorie, "until we had enough to go to

tractive, and K

I won't give all my money. I have

k, and the others all

this made sixty cents a week, and fu

King, remembering how well his

easurer, and I'll keep all the money safely,

out such things, and she'll keep the money better than any of

ey part," said King. "I want to

jumping up. "The first jin

Dick, while the girls piled leaves all over him. They left his face uncovered, so he could breat

ie said: "Now we'll hide. Don't start

the boy, and the others f

ing King's cheek with her fat little hand, sa

n, thirty-eight,-take that leaf out of my

is leaf-heap, he ran in search of the others. Rosy Posy, used to being thus unceremoniously

out finding anybody. Then a voice

ich had not yet shed its foliage, and who wa

"It" over again, so he peered

you?" h

again, but this time

up into the lower branches, keeping sharp watch les

iting him, and as they all dropped quickly to the ground, and ran

hen the little guests went home, promising to come back in the aftern

Maynards in spandy-clean cloth

ned Marjorie. "She says we may swing, or play in the h

g over our club, and I think we ought to be more like a real club

ng. "Speak piece

pieces, Friday afternoons, in school. I m

nd things like that," sug

eagerly, "that's

jorie, "I'll be secre

rything! You want to be president and treasurer and secr

ant to be anything. Now, I'll tell you what, let's have six

, 'cause you're so good at arithmetic, and you can take care

president. He's best for that,-and the

e?" asked Kitty, who didn

ommittee," she said, at last. "They al

asing, and now a

said Marjorie, "I'll tak

g one of her own, she put them all into a little k

s meeting?" asked the President, rolling out his

to decide things, and I say there isn't

tion; "let's go down to Mr. Simmons' and all have ice-cream

urprise. "I thought we were to

ey for that. But, truly, I feel like cutting up jinks, and we can't play in

Dick; and then they all

then said they might go if they would behave like littl

orous-looking crowd than the Jin

eam Garden was a mo

mall stream, and the tables were in a so

ed old proprietor, who had served his ice-cr

" asked Mr. Simmons, after th

favorite mixture, and soon they were enjoying th

said Kitty, as she gazed out over the w

agreed with her adored chum, but was

minutes!" declared Dick. "And wh

itty. "I'm the committe

nd they all agreed to meet