The Camp Fire Girls on the Farm; Or, Bessie King's New Chum

was a lot of laughter and excitement, but it was plain that the girls who had once so utterly despised the membe

hatever are you doing here? I th

shoulder-"made me change my plans. I'll have you to understand that yo

l things! Do you mean that you

ut we've got permission now from the National Council, and the girls are to get their r

anor. "Why, this is fine, Mary! T

ay they acted at Lake Dean, but really, you can't blame them so much, can you, Nell? I

," said Eleanor. "It'

snobs. Well, Marcia and some of the others got to thinking things over, and they decided that if the Cam

right, Mary. Oh,

want to at first-and then I was afraid I wouldn't be any good. But I promise

you in that sweet, gentle way of hers, and the first thing you knew you felt about as small as a pint o

ed a littl

girls as I could, and then, when she had me feeling properly ashamed of myself, she turned right around and began to make me se

st one of the empty packing boxes that

ly knew the awful things we were thinkin

bish, too, and didn't want neighbors you

kidnappers, or murderers, or fi

d if you're not, what on e

ou now that this beach may be a pretty troubled spot while we're

ll. If you're not, won't y

re, Mary. It's pretty soli

ours looks

e had been burnt. And I was doing my best to get the police or someone from Bay C

led whimsically t

?" she begged. "Or is she

said Charlie, enjoying her bewilderment. "But it's a long story. Pe

and get the other girls, won't you? Then we'll all turn in

"We're going to do everything our

You see, I thought it was better to take things easily at the start, Eleanor. They wanted to come here with all the tents and th

came. To-day we did do the work ourselves, but there was a reason for the girls were so excited and nervo

has happened here," said Mary. "But I suppose w

re glad enough to take the advice of the Manasquan girls in innumerable small matters. Comfort, and

an girls at Lake Dean, had not been with the first section of the new Camp Fire to reach the beach. Dolly had inquired a

e wagon that's bringing our suit cases. We appointed her a sort

might not want to come here if she k

sn't ready to admit it when you girls left Lake Dean. But she's come

looked a lit

ven't anything against her. We were sorry she didn't like us, and understa

, crisply. "We've had about enough of Gladys and her superior ways. She isn't any better

, and if you don't like the way she acts, you've got a perfect right

he's had a lesson that will teach

Marcia? I mean, there's only one reason why she could be nice to us, and that's because she likes us. And y

nyhow, Bessie. And that's

to show. Don't you see that she'll blame us for making trouble between you girls and her? She'll think that we've set her own friends against her. Really, Ma

ys acts this way, but I do think that the only thing that will make her act diffe

ight. But it's done. You'll be nice to her, won't you? She's promised to be pleasant when she sees y

said Bessie. "She isn't hurting us. I only hope that

when she isn't in one of her tantrums. But she is certainly hard to get

," said Dolly. "I'm

, Gladys," cried Dolly. "You sinner, why di

didn't see much of you at Lake Dean, you kno

y in re-establishing friendly relations with Gladys. "Why can't you be sensible? We've got more

decided to be friendly with your-friends, I am not going to make myself unpleasant. But you can hardly ex

u're too funny! What do you mean by girls of your own class? Girls whose parents

ll I don't mean anything of the sort. I-I can't explain just wh

f your own class you couldn't stand them for a week! Because they'd be snobbish and mean. They'd be thinking all the time about how much nicer their cloth

y! What do

s, are in a class a whole lot better than yours, Gladys. They spend their time trying to be nice, and to make other

n to tell me that you and I aren't in a better cl

al classes, the two big classes are nice people and people who aren't nice. And each of those classes is divided up again into a lot o

but I see you're worse than ever. I'm perfectly willing to be friends with you, and I've forgiven you for throwing thos

they are! And you certainly can't be my friend

I can get along without your friends

nd Marcia, "but I'm afraid I've simply made her madder

h. "We can keep her in order all right, and if she doesn't behave herself d

really do any good, would it? We want to be

nd make things worse than ever! I ought to know enough not to interfere. I'm like the elephant that ki

a good deal as Bessie said? If there's bad feeling, it's better to have it open and aboveboard. We a