A Summer in a Canyon

By Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith

Excerpt
Excerpt: PREPARATION AND DEPARTURE. 'One to make ready, and two to prepare.' It was nine o'clock one sunny California morning, and Geoffrey Strong stood under the live oak trees in Las Flores Canyon, with a pot of black paint in one hand and a huge brush in the other. He could have handled these implements to better purpose and with better grace had not his arms been firmly held by three laughing girls, who pulled not wisely, but too well. He was further incommoded by the presence of a small urchin who lay on the dusty ground beneath his feet, fastening an upward clutch on the legs of his trousers. There were three large canvas tents directly in front of them, yet no one of these seemed to be the object of dissension, but rather a redwood board, some three feet in length, which was nailed on a tree near by.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: A Summer in a Canyon, 1 -- Kate Douglas Wiggin, 1 -- CHAPTER I: PREPARATION AND DEPARTURE, 1 -- CHAPTER II: THE JOURNEY, 11 -- CHAPTER III: LIFE IN THE CANYON, THE HEIR APPARENT LOSES HIMSELF, 18 -- CHAPTER IV: RHYME AND REASON, 34 -- CHAPTER V: THE FOREST OF ARDEN, GOOD NEWS, 44 -- CHAPTER VI: QUEEN ELSIE VISITS THE COURT, 56 -- CHAPTER VII: POLLY'S BIRTHDAY: FIRST HALF IN WHICH SHE REJOICES AT THE -- MERE FACT OF HER EXISTENCE, 64 -- CHAPTER VIII: POLLY'S BIRTHDAY: SECOND HALF IN WHICH SHE WISHES SEE -- HAD NEVER BEEN BORN, 69 -- CHAPTER IX: ROUND THE CAMP?FIRE, 78 -- CHAPTER X: MORE CAMP?FIRE STORIES, 83 -- CHAPTER XI: BREAKING CAMP, 88

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A Summer in a Canyon

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Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith

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