Natalie: A Garden Scout

Mrs. James and Natalie had engaged Amity to call for them and drive them to the station to meet Janet, and when the expected visitor arrived there was a great display of delight...

Mrs. James sent word to the storekeeper at the Corners, directing him to hire help and send them to Green Hill Farm to clean up the house thoroughly. Also to see that a man mowe...

Frances lost no time in putting her idea for business into operation, so she wrote her father that night, asking him to let her have the automobile at Green Hill Farm for the su...

The vegetables, animals, and flowers might have experienced gross neglect during the next few days, after the automobile arrived, had it not been for Mrs. James' insistence that...

Natalie made good use of her eyes while Farmer Ames's man gave her the vegetable slips, and when she got back home the first question she asked Mr. Ames was: "Why can't I buy a...

The drive from Green Hill Farm to Mr. Ames's brother's farm was enlivened for Mrs. James and Natalie by the driver's gossip about the neighboring farmers whose places they passe...

Mr. Ames brought the chickens and hens early in the morning, and so interested was Natalie in Janet's stock-investment that the vegetable gardens were quite forgotten for a few...

The singing of the birds, nested in the old red maple tree that overshadowed the house on the side where Natalie's room was, roused her from the most restful sleep she had had i...

The uniformed attendant bowed politely and hurried in to obey the order. In a few moments Miss Mason heard a happy voice calling from the window in one of the upper apartments....

"I hadn't really noticed, Natalie, but now that you draw attention to the fact, I see they have trimmed the box-hedges along all the paths, and the grass has been mowed. Even th...

Solomon's Seal Patrol invited the Tenderfoot members to their camp on the afternoon before the Fourth of July to begin their lessons in scouting. Frances agreed to notify the th...

"Nothing new for poor Natalie to suffer from, I hope," said Helene Wardell, Janet's younger sister and not a member of the clique of five girls, although she often walked to and...

"It was quite unpremeditated, and consequently I am unprepared with an answer," laughed Miss Mason. "But I can confess to being one of those objectionable persons that always wa...

That afternoon at the Scout Camp taught the city visitors many things about the outdoor life that now interested their girls. Then when it was time for Mr. Marvin to drive home,...