Dorothy on a House Boat

For once Gerald was neglected, and for once he was glad of it. Mrs. Stillwell and Jim had both come in, on the afternoon before, in a high state of excitement. They had demanded...

"Huh! Dolly's caught the Ford fashion of sending telegrams where a letter would do!" exclaimed Jim Barlow, after he had opened the yellow envelope which Griselda Roemer gave him...

Maybe the Colonel was more pleased to meet his Water Lily friends again than they were to see him. But Aunt Betty hid her disappointment under her usual courteous demeanor and w...

"There is no sense in it, dear, of course. The family explained it this way. The gentleman's real name is Trowbridge. His wife's family was Dillingham. It was of much older orig...

Attracted by the wild flowers growing in the fields around the cove where the Water Lily was moored, the four girls had left the boat a little while before the melon seekers had...

About the middle of that eventful morning he appeared with a big basket on either arm, his blue-checked smock swaying in the breeze that had arisen, his iron-gray, luxuriant whi...

In an instant a crowd of terrified people had gathered in the cabin, clasping one another's hands, sobbing and shivering as gust after gust shook the Water Lily so that it seeme...

Saint Augustine was the second son of Lucetta Stillwell and certainly misnamed. There was nothing saintly about him except his wonderful blue eyes and his curly, golden hair. Th...

Then a mighty din arose. With an answering yell the half-drunken teamster flew at his assailant, using his whip continually, but not wisely, for both wrath and liquor blinded hi...

"Aunt Betty, it's Captain Hurry, again!" explained Dorothy, close to her aunt's ear. "He claims that the captain of any boat always has head table. He's acted so queer even the...

"Well, of all things!" exclaimed Mrs. Betty Calvert, shaking her white head and tossing her hands in a gesture of amazement. Then, as the letter she had held fell to the floor,...

Deep in the heart of the September woods there was gathered one morning a little company of greatly excited people. Old Cap'n Jack was the wildest of the lot. Next him in point...

Suddenly there rose from behind the fence a curious figure to confront them. Two figures, in fact, a man's and a mule's. Both were of a dusty brown color, both were solemn in ex...

"We've gone on to Ottawotta Run. Farmer Stillwell's tug, that he owns half of, is towing us to the Branch. There some more men will be hired to pole us to Deer-Copse. Aunt Betty...

It was an eager company gathered in the big saloon of the Water Lily. No time had been lost by all these seekers after the "buried treasure" in obeying Farmer Corny's summons to...

The first sight of Mrs. Bruce's sad face, that morning, had been most depressing; and she was relieved to find a change in its aspect as the woman roused to action. There hadn't...

Early on the morning after his arrival, Jim Barlow repaired to Halcyon Point, taking an expert engineer with him, as Aunt Betty had insisted, and from that time till the Water L...

"Same little, dear, enthusiastic Dorothy! Well, my child, I reckon I'm as glad as you. But have you no greeting for your old acquaintance, Mr. Stinson? or a 'Howdy' for the doct...