A RECKLESS EXCURSION


In the morning, when the girls awoke, there was no sign of the guides
who had cooked that tempting and delicious supper the night before.

"Well, we're on our own resources now, girls," said the Guardian. "This
may be a sort of Eden--I hope we'll find it so. But it's going to be a
manless one. There'll be no men here until we get ready to go away, if I
can help it--except as visitors."

"Well, I guess we can get along without them all right, for a change,"
said Dolly, blushing a little.

"Some of the men I know who are interested in the Boy Scouts think the
Camp Fire Girls are a good deal of a joke," said Eleanore, with a light
in her eyes that might have made some of the scoffers she referred to
anxious to eat their words. "They say we get along all right because we
always have some man ready to help us out if we get into any trouble. So
I planned this camp just to show them that we can do just as well as any
troop of Boy Scouts ever did."

"I bet we can, too," said Dolly, eagerly. "Why, with such a lot of us to
do the work, it won't be very hard for any one of us."

"Not if we all do our share, Dolly," said Eleanor, looking at her rather
pointedly. "But if some of us are always managing to disappear just when
there's work to be done, someone will have to do double duty--and that's
not fair."