"LOOK, GIRLS! UP ON THE ROCK! THERE'S PEG!"
The Girl Scouts at Camp Comalong
Lilian Garis
1921
CONTENTS
- CHAPTER I—THE ACORN
- CHAPTER II—PETE’S PROLOGUE
- CHAPTER III—SHIPSHAPING
- CHAPTER IV—AN ANGEL UNAWARES
- CHAPTER V—A STOLEN LOOK AROUND
- CHAPTER VI—OPENING DAY
- CHAPTER VII—THE LOVING BANDIT
- CHAPTER VIII—GLOW OF THE CAMPFIRE’S GLEAM
- CHAPTER IX—A DAY WITH THE BOBBIES
- CHAPTER X—MEET BUZZ AND FUSS
- CHAPTER XI—THE FOOD SHOWER
- CHAPTER XII—A RECORD BREAKER
- CHAPTER XIII—DANGER SIGNALS
- CHAPTER XIV—THE ALGONQUIN EPISODE
- CHAPTER XV—A PADDLE, A SWIM AND A SUN DIAL
- CHAPTER XVI—A DARING INTRUDER
- CHAPTER XVII—THE GRANITE STAR CLUE
- CHAPTER XVIII—A CALL IN THE NIGHT
- CHAPTER XIX—SHAG: THE ALARM CLOCK
- CHAPTER XX—THE ROOM OF MYSTERY
- CHAPTER XXI—A SURPRISE INDEED
- CHAPTER XXII—PEG OF TAMARACK HILLS
CHAPTER I—THE ACORN
It was Corene’s idea. She had just returned from a glorious two weeks spent in a real Girl Scouts’ Camp, and the brief time acted like a whiff of something good, and it tasted like more and Corene wanted it.
“Two weeks!” she repeated moodily.
“What can you expect?” queried Louise. “Everyone must have a turn.”
“And two weeks make a real vacation for many girls,” insisted Cleo.
“Two weeks spent right in one spot—in the ocean, for instance, would seem an awful long time to me,” said fun-making Grace.
“Besides all that, you went away to camp early on account of having finished your school work,” Cleo reminded her, “and consequently those very two weeks are so much extra. We haven’t gone away at all yet.”
“I know,” agreed the abused one, “and please don’t slap me, or do anything like that, girls. I have just been thinking of those wonderful days——” She slid down and thrust her feet out so suddenly and determinedly that she upset a harmless little vase, water, flowers and all, r