Front matter

BY

ISABEL HORNIBROOK

AUTHOR OF “CAMP AND TRAIL,” “FROM KEEL TO KITE,” ETC.

ILLUSTRATED BY JOHN GOSS

BOSTON

LOTHROP, LEE & SHEPARD CO.

Published April, 1916

Copyright, 1916,

By Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co.

All Rights Reserved

Girls of the Morning-Glory Camp Fire

NORWOOD PRESS

BERWICK & SMITH CO.

Norwood, Mass.

U. S. A.

Dedicated to Ruth, Eleanor, and Margaret

The great burnished top was set to spinning madly upon a flat stone.

The author expresses her indebtedness to Dr. Frank G. Speck of the University of Pennsylvania and to Dr. Jacob D. Sapir for permission to reprint the nonsense-syllables and music of the Leaf Dance, from their records made among the Indians, published in “Ceremonial Songs of the Creek and Yuchi Indians.”

CONTENTS

I A Strolling Piano

II Playground Peacemakers

III Captain Andy Takes Off His Hat

IV The Lakeside Council Fire

V A Miniature

VI The Green Cross

VII Mary-Jane Peg

VIII The Sugarloaf

IX Wood Gatherers Among The Dunes

X The Astronomer

XI Kullíbigan

XII Floured Glass

XIII Wind Against Tide

XIV The Castaway

XV In the Quicksands’ Grip

XVI The Sun-Dollar

XVII A Monogram on a Coin

XVIII The Torch Bearer

ILLUSTRATIONS

The great burnished top was set to spinning madly upon a flat stone.

Her left hand had snatched at the dragging reins

“She won’t fail. She can’t! I see the red!”

“An’ you’ll laugh back at the fears, once you join the Morning-Glory Camp Fire”

On, ploughing on, through the wet, oozing sands

A large, antique silver coin of a size and stamp such as neither Boy Scout nor Camp Fire Girl had ever seen before

GIRLS OF THE MORNING-GLORY CAMP FIRE