The Girl Scouts at Rocky Ledge; Or, Nora's Real Vacation

"Good enough to give you the right sort of nightmare, eh? Well, that's nice. Ted is always after the cobwebs, but I don't let her spoil them if I'm around. You see, cobwebs have...

When Nora wrote to Barbara she drew word pictures of the beauties at Woodland Wilds. She shed a tear of real joy when writing about Cousin Jerry and Captain, and when she fondly...

Now her eyes could make out the rafters. It was the attic, but what part of it? The faintest gleam of light breaking in from above followed the rough beams. The frightened girl...

It was difficult to make certain that this lusty Italian understood; but even in the dim light, her dark eyes seemed kind and full of smiling glints, and her ruddy cheeks dimple...

It was a delightful hike out to the Ledge, that big, rugged rock that leaned over a pretty, disjoined lake, made up of tributaries from springs and rain flows. Rocky Ledge was e...

Little Nora fairly trembled with expectation. What would the night bring? She was determined to sleep in that attic under the big, dark rafters. As a matter of fact Nora was fas...

Forgotten was the dread idea of a Scout uniform or the possible program of a Scout ritual. Nora romped with Cap, discovering new delights at every few paces and only pausing to...

It was almost dusk and the moving picture party was about to set out for Lenox in the trim little car which, Ted insisted, was tamed, educated and "fed from her hand" when it we...

Swept off her foolish feet of fancy and landed safely on the more practical ground of girls' life, Nora presently found herself in the canvas tent, actually donning a Scout unif...

Ted's pleasure, shown when Nora's transformation was revealed to her in a dripping little "pond lily" on the edge of Mirror Lake, was not to be compared with Jerry's joys when h...

"You see, I have always wanted a man named Jim to protect me, and now that I've got you I'd love to have you as Jim. Then, I have perfectly loved the Aunt Elizabeths. They're al...

It was a fascinating tale. Every detail told by Nora took on new value as it was silently applauded by her eager audience. Thus encouraged she waxed eloquent, and when she finis...

It was so much better than dreams. Not only did Nora feel the importance of having a real secret, but she also realized that the same circumstance had actually made Vita her abj...

"Of course, she'll come over. Didn't I say I'd leave a flap up?" asked Wyn. It was so early that the very Chickadees, after whom the patrol had been named, were still asleep in...

Nora not only heard the voices but she had seen the girls coming, and feeling that she, as a member of the family, should "do the honors," she summoned courage to greet the call...

Under a canvas tent sheltered by a particularly broad chestnut tree and surrounded by a group of beautiful white birch, the girls of Chickadee Patrol, Girl Scouts, were listenin...

No one could tell just how they got there, but realizing that some one was suffering they had all followed Cap to the attic, and there waited again for the sound that was to lea...

Nora was disconsolate. For two days the dainties left for Lucia had remained untouched. The bread box which Vita had given her to play with, and into which the food was deposite...

"Look!" called out Thistle, who was now standing in the more shallow water, "it is only up to my shoulders. Just bring Nora out here and she can wade in," announced the Scotch g...

But being converted to scouting could not at once cure Nora of her dream habits. Being so long alone in school, and having a brain insatiable for creative material, she usually...

"I'm not going in that house with her until Cousin Ted comes home," declared Nora. "Vita is always putting me off. She knows what that noise up in the attic is."

It was growing dusk--the sunset seemed in a great hurry to get away, and day time was evidently going to the same party. The Mantons failed to induce Nora to accompany them on a...

It was all over. Nora had been made a Girl Scout. To celebrate the enrollment Jerry and Ted gave a "large party" at the Nest, and of all her memorable social functions, this to...

"Will any one hurt you if you don't?" This was merely a chance question of Nora's. She could not think quickly of just the right thing to say and was anxious to detain the child.