The Woodcraft Girls in the City

Early Monday morning a messenger boy brought May Randall's Woodcraft chest to the gymnasium and handed Miss Miller a note. The letter was type-written on plain paper so no clue...

When the girls returned to the city the day following the Fourth, they heard that Mrs. Remington and Anna, the governess, were going to assist them in Woodcraft that Summer, and...

In the days following the camp-talk, the girls saw little of each other after school, as they were busy working on the gifts to be distributed at the Hallow E'en camp.

"Certain Indians came to a fort to live, and after a time began killing bears, ground-hogs, porcupines, mountain sheep, and other animals for food. After they had killed them, t...

That week a Council was held to decide upon the merits of the new members. As each was called upon to answer various questions, the replies were perfectly satisfactory until it...

"Come ahead, boys, clean the fish and get them ready for me to cook," called Fred, starting to dig a hole in the ground about twice the size of the fish. This he thickly lined w...

"Well, for pity's sake take one and pass the other this way," ordered Jane, losing patience as she saw Fiji compare the two to help himself to the larger one.

The weather grew warmer with the advancing Spring and out-door life became a joy to the Woodcrafters. The Little Lodge proved to be so entertaining to the five girls that they f...

Miss Miller had secured permission to use the gymnasium for the weekly Council Meetings of the Woodcrafters, so she was already there when the members of Wickeecheokee Band and...

The following week, every member of Wickeecheokee Band was busy after school, working hard on their carpentry. Some had decided to make wooden toys for the little ones, some pre...

"Well, I got it direct, so the truth hasn't been turned or twisted by any one of you girls before it was passed along," retorted Zan, with a gleam of mischief in her eyes.

In spite of pessimistic prognostications about the weather, Friday came and it was a perfect Autumn day. Fiji Baker and Jack Hubert were up at day-break as their express-man car...

"A group of children were playing ball with a woody excrescence which they had found in the bole of a tree. It had been rubbed down and polished until it was smooth and shiny as...

"It sounds like a stupendous work, but I suppose Miss Miller will explain it so that a child like Teddy Remington can sit down and make one every day," laughed Jane.

November ushered itself in with cold and penetrating fogs, so that the girls found it pleasanter to hold meetings at each other's houses or in the gymnasium, instead of out-of-d...

After leaving the other girls at the corner of Maple Avenue, May Randall and Eleanor Wilbur walked on alone. May was large for her age, but most enthusiastic over Woodcraft as s...