Winona of the Camp Fire

Next day was the "cold gray dawn of the morning after." Not that it was particularly cold or gray, but there was all the unnailing of the float to do, and the dismantling of the...

"You certainly are taking it easy, considering there's going to be a dance!" declared Tom. "Usually when anything like that is going to happen you run around like a hen with its...

Of course, things didn't always go smoothly, even with Winona's young energy and good-will hard at work. "Accidents will happen in the best regulated families" was a proverb who...

It was only a tall boy in the uniform of the Boy Scouts who was tearing up the steps. But both the old lady and Winona uttered a faint squeal, the old lady because he kissed her...

It was quite true that the Camp was not to break up for some time, owing to the Wampoag people's appetite for Camp jellies and linens; but so far as Winona was concerned, life u...

Next morning by eight Camp Karonya was up and eating a large breakfast. The girls sang a cheer to Mrs. Norris when they were done, and formed for their march again. Most of them...

"Well, go ahead and talk," she said. "It won't make things any less so." Then suddenly she burst out, "You don't know what it's like. You don't know how it feels never to have a...

The Camp Fire might all grin broadly whenever it spoke of Louise's adoption--even more broadly than it had at Winona's cat-collection: but the adoptee herself was quite serious...

"Where on earth have you been? What on earth have you been doing? Where in the name of common sense did you get that haughty black person who brought us news of you about six?"...

Winona and Florence paddled back to Camp Karonya with the latest bundle of mending, very, very happy. When they came ashore, they were met by a committee consisting of Adelaide,...

There were bathing and boating and tree-climbing in the days that followed and there were hikes and folk-dances and various entertainments, by themselves, and occasionally with...

Louise was as good as her word. She was back in a very few minutes, and in Winona's room again. She found her friend standing in the middle of the floor, her dress exactly what...

"It was," admitted Tom. "I enjoyed it myself. Also the eats were good. Very clever of us to give a party like that. The question is, if you girls had to manage a real meal what...

"She did," said Marie resignedly. "Every single property for 'Gentle Alice Brown' and the 'Oysterman' is in a mound in the dressing-tent. Go look, for goodness' sake, or you'll...

And in the opulent days which followed the winning of the carnival prizes, and the selling of lovely amounts of Camp Fire goods, Camp Karonya decided that it ought to own a phon...

Louise went back to camp next day, and Winona went on with her work at home. Louise had left all sorts of presents and messages from the girls, and taken a great many from Winon...

As the clock struck eight-thirty Monday morning, on the last week in July, one Guardian, one dog, thirteen big girls and seven small ones lined up for their long-anticipated hik...

When the four girls came down and put on the supper they found a surprise waiting for them. Beside the large table the little sewing-table had been moved in, spread with a white...

"Just a minute, Adelaide!" she whispered, and she went over to the corner where Mrs. Bryan and Marie Hunter were discussing business together. The rest were still all talking da...

"This paying for deceased poultry," said Tom, "is getting monotonous. First there were those pedigreed geese up on the river, and now Henry. I know Henry never cost as much as t...

The next time Billy and Tom and Winona and Louise went off in Billy's canoe for the day, they did not take Sandy. She happened to be making one of her brief visits home. They to...

Within the next week Mrs. Bryan had sent for and filled out and returned the application blanks, and now the girls were merely waiting for the return of the blanks and their cha...

Billy helped Winona in, felt for the matches, and got in himself. Tom pushed them off from shore. It was all done with the solemnity of a funeral procession. Winona looked at th...

"Well, we'll be ahead of Edith, anyway," Winnie remarked cheerfully. She adjusted the two dozen rolls more easily, for that many rolls, when you have far to carry them, have a w...

"_I_ think it means something!" said Louise, beginning to take out bastings. She was the best seamstress of the three, and consequently was done first. "Here, Helen, let me fini...

At the mention of dinner everybody became energetic as by magic. Winnie split her two dozen rolls neatly down the middle, and set them in rows on a newspaper, ready for the broi...

A couple of days later Winona took Florence and Puppums, and went exploring in the rowboat. Louise and Helen were very busy making a tree-house, but they promised to see that Hi...

The room they called the Den in Winnie Merriam's house was dark, except for the leaping wood-fire in the big stone fireplace. Around the fire sat and lay five girls. They had be...