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DRAKE OF TROOP ONE SCOUT DRAKE IN WAR TIME COXSWAIN DRAKE OF THE SEASCOUTS DRAKE AND THE ADVENTURERS’ CUP PEMROSE LORRY: CAMP FIRE GIRL PEMROSE LORRY: RADIO AMATEUR
[Illustration: “We’ve got to ride on—your own horse is here—to where you and I can be together.”]
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY NANA BICKFORD ROLLINS
Copyright, 1923, By LITTLE, Brown, AND COMPANY.
All rights reserved Published April, 1923
The author acknowledges her indebtedness to Nawadaha of the Camp Fire (Ethel V. Smart) for the songs and rhymes, and for some helpful collaboration.
I A Flower Clock II A “Roaring Buckie” III An Awful Note IV Fathers V The Magic Carpet VI A Gentleman VII Fit for Fit VII The Wee Hour IX Dandering Kate X Hidden Valley XI Her XII The Shack Corner XIII The Long Pasture XIV Revel and Revelation XV Wheeled through Life XVI The Lip XVII Wild Flowers XVIII Mondamin XIX A Girl Brigade XX No Answer XXI The Call of the Air XXII On Little Sister XXIII The Ring XXIV The Race XXV Spring
“We’ve got to ride on—your own horse is here—to where you and I can be together.”
Drifting down, a fire-tail, the aëroplane truly was.
“Well! I say, this is a little bit of all right—isn’t it?”
Pemrose was standing with her aërial out to a gnarled pine-tree.
“Good morning, Daytime!” A girl stood upon the gray stone steps of a Lenox mansion and, looking up, answered the first lovely smile that young day flung down to her as, robed in pale pink and bluish bloom, it slowly climbed the eastern sky.
“Good morning, Day-sky!” she laughed again—smiling all over in response to that pink of beauty above her. “Well! this is the first time that the Sunrise and I have been chums,” she murmured to herself, “the first spring, I mean; I—I who used to suffer from the sleepy fevers more than—than the ‘nappiest’ little flower in my garden.”
She laughed softly now, Una Grosvenor, known to her girl chums as Jack—a gay bit of satire, by the way—and by the Council Fire as U-te-yan, Flower, as she descended the gray steps into a dewy garden, where those Rogues O’May, the late spring flowers, were still, many of them, slumbering with eyes tight shut.