Ethel Hollister's Second Summer as a Campfire Girl

hey were none other than Harvey Bigelow and young Teddy Kip, the Master and assistant Scout Master of the "Flying Eagles" Scout Pa

Ethel, and rushed forwa

lcomed them cordially, intro

does seem good to see you here," and he gazed at her thoughtfully and curio

's costumes and really she d

mp life has done you some good, a

change. Look at yourself

t's splendid for both boy and girl. It's a boon to be able to get away from city people and fashiona

this: Nannie Bigelow is comi

us. I've an aunt in Springfield and she'll go there for a visit first. Aft

Ethel, and she ran

ee everything, so she took him off under her wing. The rest sat on the ground while Harvey relat

as well, but we'll give you a change-a shore dinner. Father sent up some very fresh clams. We'll steam them

my word, one might i

tay," and he sm

him our cellar. And the boys-perhaps they'

elighted to help the gir

y fol

changed so since her mother's death

at she seems more qu

dislike her tho

overcome that antipathy to her. If only her voice would lower a little, and if she'd cease to

do with that. She seems to love your mot

for a Camp," said the young man.

l to the best shore dinner ever prepared, and when finished

e girls for two weeks. After leaving Camp she was to spend half

five o'clock, and it was with regre

hymns, after which each girl was left to do as she chose. Ethel proposed to r

Lake," they said to E

alternately bright, then cloudy, but t

er mind. To think that she had to be taken while so young-not yet forty-five, and the tears rolled down her cheeks. But "Thank God," she thought, "I never caused her any unhappiness, and I still have my dear, kind father," and Nora wiped her eyes. "It's Miss Ethel who dislikes me. No matter what I say to her nor how friendly I am, she won't like me. And when I try to joke or do her a little ki