Round Robin

Six girls and a terrier puppy were waiting on the wharf at Old Harbor for the boat to come in. Of course there were many other persons gathered besides these; for the arrival of...

People were already drifting away from the pier. “Hugh and Victor are waiting to take us to Camp in the motor boat,” explained Nancy. “I’ll just introduce you to the Round Robin...

Across a smooth stretch of bay dotted with tiny islets, past cliffs with great black fissures in the side; through a narrow channel between grim reefs and the ragged shore, went...

Anne was awakened at what seemed an unearthly hour by the sound of a bugle. “_I can’t get ’em up! I can’t get ’em up in the morning!_” Several merry voices seemed to be singing...

“Oh dear! I forgot my fern-seed!” cried Nancy, as they reached Round Robin. “Why didn’t you remind me, Cicely, when we were getting the sweet grass? The clam-bake was so excitin...

“Oh, rain!” Norma lifted her head from her pillow and groaned. “No swim this morning, and Victor was just teaching me that new stroke!” Norma hated rain. Grey skies of New Engla...

One hot afternoon Anne Poole had retired to the Fairy Ring, presumably to write letters. Beverly, who tried to give Anne full possession of the tent as often as she wished it, w...

The first part of the way to Idlewild was unfamiliar to Anne. Apparently she had never walked far on the foot-path around her father’s place. But as they approached the end of t...

Over another stile in the handsome wall clambered the Round Robin, and the girls found themselves in simple pasture-land once more. This was land that Captain Sackett would not...

“It happened before any of you were born,” said he, “when I was captain of a little schooner named _The Anna_. That was my wife’s name, and my little daughter’s after her. I had...

A fortnight went by, and “the Tenderfeet,” as Dick called the newer campers, were growing used to camp ways which had seemed queer and hard to some of them at first. In all that...

“It will be easy going down,” said Nelly Sackett, when they were rested and ready. “There are several trails down from the top in different directions. But I told Tante we would...

In answer to Dick’s reassuring call “Here she is!” the Round Robin came running, pale and anxious, to greet Anne. Not a word of reproach did she hear. Only affectionate joy that...

Tante was going to have a birthday. It was the Twins who let out the secret which they had been charged to keep. But it is easy to understand how, while it is hard enough for _o...

Tante’s birthday was a beautiful, bright blue day; what the towns-folk called a “_real_ Harbor day.” You will notice as you go around the world, that the _real_ day of any place...

Once every year Round Robin gave an entertainment for the children of Old Harbor. The Camp was rather far from the village, so they always had the “show” in the Casino, a little...

Ever since the adventure of the Round Robin on the mountain Captain Sackett had been uneasy. It is not pleasant to know that there are lawbreakers in your neighborhood. Hunting...

It was a warm July night. The Camp lay quiet and serene, everybody sound asleep. The heat of the day, which had been unusual for the region, had brought out the spicy scent of t...

For years Chester F. Poole had been taking the money of other persons to line his own pockets. The savings of the simple people, his neighbors,--lumbermen, fishermen, farmers an...

The first thing Captain Sackett did was to look up Dick Reed, who corroborated Anne’s story, and added some important details which she had forgotten. “You come along with me,”...

Fifteen years earlier his beloved daughter Anna had married a man from “the Main,” as the people of that part of the country called the mainland. To her parents’ grief he had ta...

The summer was drawing to a close. There were only two weeks more of Camp, and Round Robin was resolved to make the most of this fortnight, before the little group should scatte...

One beautiful blue day early in September, several persons stood on the pier at Old Harbor watching the little steamer move away. It was bearing the larger part of the summer co...