Category: Children & Young Adult Reading
A shrill whistle from the woods then told the three waiting children that Don and Dot Starr were half-way to the meeting place. The Blue Birds and Bobolinks were going to meet at the barn, known now as the Publishing Offices, to start thence for the ten-forty train to New York.
As the time drew near for the large farm-wagons to arrive at the camp to convey the Little Citizens to the picnic ground, many eyes kept turning in the direction of the farm-yar...
6. CHAPTER VIThe clothes were dry, and the Blue Birds and Bobolinks were again dressed, but Uncle Ben advised them to keep the overalls to protect their good clothes while they were playing...
1. CHAPTER IA shrill whistle from the woods then told the three waiting children that Don and Dot Starr were half-way to the meeting place. The Blue Birds and Bobolinks were going to meet a...
7. CHAPTER VIIUncle Ben sat up with Flutey a long time that night, after he entered the house, and when the two parted to go to bed, it had been decided to experiment as Uncle Ben planned.
3. CHAPTER IIILittle Nelly Finn had been admitted to the camp at Happy Hills, and was the happiest little girl there. Never had she seen such grass and flowers, to say nothing of the big tree...
4. CHAPTER IVA week had passed by swiftly while the Firemen and Police Force practiced and drilled constantly to become proficient in their work. And the official nurses found many little wa...
15. CHAPTER XVThe Blue Birds and Bobolinks had only a few days more to stay at Happy Hills, and they all wanted to make the most of them. They were at camp from early morning till late at nig...
10. CHAPTER XThe picnic was declared a grand success in spite of the fright little Prunel had had, for such a thrill as the Little Citizens had been treated to at the danger and escape of on...
2. CHAPTER II“’Tain’t a prayer-meetin’ camp, neider! It’s a regerler camp fer boys and gals. I was told there’s not a bit of Sunday School stunts goin’ on there,” replied Finn, defensively.
12. CHAPTER XII“Why no, Joe, this is to be a treat given by us to the people who did so much for Little Citizens. It will cost them a lot of money just to get here, as it is.”
11. CHAPTER XI“Now that those two pests are diminishing, I wish to mention another cause of impatience and concern in camp. The boys and girls past the age of eight or nine, who are not activ...
16. CHAPTER XVI“It’s cuz yeh are so anxious to git there. Now I’m a lookin’ out the winder at all the trees and little houses we pass an’ I ain’t so tired wid de ride,” replied Micky.
5. CHAPTER VThe Blue Birds and Bobolinks had to hurry to the kitchen where a good-natured cook and kitchen girl offered to dry their wet clothes. Meantime, the hapless boys and girls would...
8. CHAPTER VIIIIt took little time for the news to spread around the camp that a picnic was planned for that day, and many a Little Citizen forgot newly acquired table manners, in the eagernes...
13. CHAPTER XIIIThe audience felt the usual circus thrill as they took their places on the narrow board seats; the tent that always gives a twilight dimness to the inside of a circus arena was...
14. CHAPTER XIVAt the Refectory the guests were treated to cakes and lemonade and were waited upon by the Little Citizens who had been taught to wait on each other properly, or when visitors w...