He laughed and asked her if she didn't want him to send a guard over to our camp.

Of course he was only joking, but when she saw that I had heard what he said, she told me not to tell the girls; not to even mention such a thing, or they'd be so frightened they'd want to break camp and go straight home." "It would be fun to scare them," said Rob, "but you'd better believe I'll not say anything if there's any danger of having to go home sooner on account of it." "We've got to go day after to-morrow anyhow," said Keith, gloomily.

"I wish I could miss another week of school, but I know papa wouldn't let me, even if the camp didn't break up." "Come on!" called Ranald, who had pushed on ahead.

"Let's hurry back and have a good swim before supper." Not satisfied with the excitement of the day, the girls were no sooner out of the wagon than some one started a wild game of prisoners' base.

Then they played hide-and-seek among the rocks and trees around the waterfall, and while they were wiping their flushed faces, panting after the long run, Kitty proposed that they should have a candy pulling.
Dinah made the candy, but the girls pulled it, running a race to see whose would be the whitest in a given time.