Ethel Hollister's Second Summer as a Campfire Girl

-in-law. Mrs. Hollister was persuaded not to go to camp until after a few days, when the girls should be s

ght upon seeing Ethel. Edna Whitely was the same happy-go-lucky Edna as of old. Mollie Long and Edith Overman had grown very tall

l. Mattie had grown quiet and dignified, w

them all, espe

at girl behind me?" she thought

, but after a while her voice began to take on its old shrill tones, while in he

she thought. "I must li

rthy to be a Camp Fire

ll affect Mother

to her Wood Gatherer's ring she wore the

dna Whitely and a new girl named Kate Winthrop, who had never been to Camp before. Edna couldn't see

will have to gather wood and we have but one new

ced to the next higher grade. This is the Fire Makers' ode to Fire that they intoned as Ethel lighted the Council Fire: "Oh, Fire, long years ago when our fathers fought with the great animals you were their protection. From the cruel cold of winter you sa

t flames shooting upward the effect of the

Legend of Ohio which had been attached to eac

Fire, and of the weekly meeting. Edna Whitely had real

en saved by the two girls. She also requested that it should be read upon Ethel's return. It told how under unusual distress she had been tempted to do a great wrong,--how the two girls caused her to make restituti

ign they knew what the wrong was. But they smiled at Mattie

ter will be afte

d and lighted a branch, throwing it on the ashes,

we are free. We work to win, to conquer, to be masters.

h Overman came forward chantin

ve and are happy; in caring for the health and beauty of our persons we

lighted the third branch which crackled and threw up numb

t and joy and sweetness. And love is comradeship and motherhood and fatherhood, and all de

this song

eep in thy sh

of the Hi

heart and c

ul's

sunrise ba

of the Hi

wake clear

l's de

by Fiona

g over to Mattie kissed her tenderly, after which each girl followed