Nancy Brandon

"I think it would be nice to let Mr. Townsend sit behind the counter on his old high stool," Nancy further suggested. "It might make him feel at home. I wonder where we put that...

The small kitchen was untidy. There were boxes empty and some crammed with loose papers, while a big clothes basket was filled--with a small boy, who took turns rolling it like...

Mrs. Brandon was such a mother as one might readily imagine would be the parent of Nancy and Ted. In the first place she was young, so young as to be mistaken often for Nancy's...

But something had happened to Nancy. The cake failure represented to her much more than a simple episode, for it had suddenly summed up all the awful possibilities of untrained...

Nancy jerked her cretonne apron first one way and then the other. Then she kicked out a few steps, still pondering. When Nancy was thinking seriously she had to be acting. This...

"Sale now going on!" chanted Isabel, a friend of Ruth's, who had come in to help. "Ladies and gentlemen! Step this way for your fish lines!" she called out, testing the possibil...

During the next half hour the girls busied themselves playing store. Ruth was almost as keenly interested in the little place as was Nancy, herself, but it was noticeable that V...

As usual Ted was charging Nancy with delinquency. He wasn't really quarreling, but just talking, as Nancy defined it. Mrs. Brandon had been dressing when the early knock first s...

It was a very exciting story, indeed, that Ted and Nancy poured into their mother's ears that evening. Had she any possible objections to adopting Nero as the fourth member of t...

Some days later the Whatnot Shop was being dismantled, that is the shelves were being treated to a great clearing off, and the old-fashioned glass cases were being lined with wh...

It did not seem possible that Manny's school had been successfully opened two weeks ago! That the girls in her class, at first numbering eight now counted fourteen, each paying...

It was all very exciting, but Nancy didn't want to think that she was really glad to get rid of her precious Whatnot Shop. Ted openly declared "he told her so," as boys will, bu...

"Isn't she lovely? Looks like a cameo." That was Nancy's remark to Ruth when Mrs. Mortimer Cullen tarried in the sun parlor of the Hilton house, through which the girls were con...

"But Nancy," protested Marion Mason, one of the Upper Crust Hill girls, "how could you have heard anybody or anything in that open field? No bushes nor trees big enough to hide...

The days were slipping by, and Nancy found herself entangled in a rather confused vacation. True, she had already reaped real benefit from the big sale and from the subsequent d...

Nancy stood there on the stool, dangling an old rusty knife which she had just spied among the box of unclassified articles, and she told those boys a yarn, a regular old salt-y...

Nancy never looked as untidy as she really felt. In fact, she always looked "interesting and human," as her friends might say, but she was sensitive about the disorder she prete...

It seemed but a very short time later that Nancy was again awakened. But now the sunshine was streaming into her room, and she heard Miss Manners talking down in the hall, in a...

Poor little Miss Manners! Hers had been a brave struggle, and as Nancy and her mother listened to the brokenly told story, they were easily ready to pardon the little lady's sho...

Just beyond the trees and undergrowth that surrounds Oak's Pond, a stretch of sand hills offered the youngsters an ideal playground. A few scrubby pines managed to draw from the...

"Going, going, going, gone!" sang back Nancy. "Manny is a wonder. She just sells and goes on with her preparations, and girls, when my store is all cleaned out I wouldn't wonder...

"Well, this is great!" he declared heartily. "I see by your window card you carry Mackinaw's goods and I haven't been able to get them nearer than the city." He was addressing a...

Instinctively Nancy sought a sheltered corner of the ice cream room. She was greatly embarrassed to have come along the road with a stranger whom she knew nothing about, and now...