The Camp Fire Girls’
Larks and Pranks
OR
The House of the Open Door
By HILDEGARD G. FREY
AUTHOR OF
The Camp Fire Girls Series
A. L. BURT COMPANY
Publishers New York
THE
Camp Fire Girls Series
A Series of Stories for Camp Fire Girls Endorsed bythe Officials of the Camp Fire Girls Organization
By HILDEGARD G. FREY
- The Camp Fire Girls in the Maine Woods
- or, The Winnebago’s Go Camping
- The Camp Fire Girls at School
- or, The Wohelo Weavers
- The Camp Fire Girls at Onoway House
- or, The Magic Garden
- The Camp Fire Girls Go Motoring
- or, Along the Road That Leads the Way
- The Camp Fire Girls’ Larks and Pranks
- or, The House of the Open Door
- The Camp Fire Girls on Ellen’s Isle
- or, the Trail of the Seven Cedars
- The Camp Fire Girls on the Open Road
- or, Glorify Work
- The Camp Fire Girls Do Their Bit
- or, Over The Top With the Winnebago’s
- The Camp Fire Girls Solve a Mystery
- or, The Christmas Adventures at Carver House
- The Camp Fire Girls at Camp Keewaydin
- or, Down Paddles
Copyright, 1917
By A. L. Burt Company
THE CAMP FIRE GIRLS’ LARKS AND PRANKS
SHE WAS NUMB FROM THE COLD AND VERY NEARLY ASLEEP WHEN THECAPTAIN FOUND HER.
The Camp-Fire Girls’ Larks and Pranks.Page 178.
THE CAMP FIRE GIRLS’
LARKS AND PRANKS
CHAPTER I
THE HOUSE OF THE OPEN DOOR
It was the crisp chill of an early October evening;in the still air the dead leaves came rustling downwith a soft sound like whispers, while the cricketschirped a cheery welcome from the waiting earth.Over the treetops a big yellow hunter’s moon wasrising; its comical face grinning good-naturedly. Itlooked down on the dark outlines of a large barnstanding in the shadow of a tall tree and the grinwidened perceptibly. Evidently something was happeningon earth.
A dark form stole softly up the long drive leadingto the barn and paused before the door. Throughthe silence there rose the whistling wail of the whippoorwill,repeated three times, and ending abruptlyin the squall of a catbird. From within the blacknessof the barn came an echo of the whippoorwill’scall, followed by a much more cheerful note