“The Brownies are going to camp next summer?” Sunny demanded breathlessly. “Oh, that would be fun!”
“We mustn’t count on it too far ahead,” the troop leader warned. “However, you girls have proved to my satisfaction that you’re highly responsible and dependable. So, who knows?”
Even a hint of what lay in store, thrilled the girls and made them glad they were Brownies. Now, as it developed, the troop did go to camp the following summer, a story which is related in the second volume of this series, entitled: “The Brownie Scouts in the Circus.”
And for boys, also interested in camp life and the out-of-doors, there is a book called: “Dan Carter, Cub Scout.”
However, with snows banked deep about the Gordon farm, the Brownies were thinking more about Christmas than of what they would do the following summer.
Everyone seemed to be having a wonderful time now that the parents had arrived—everyone, that is, except Veve.
Miss Gordon noticed that the little girl did not join in the singing and that she looked quite downcast.
“Why, Veve,” she said, “is anything wrong?”
Veve shook her head and tried to smile, but instead only managed to twist up the corners of her mouth.
“You’re not sad because we’re leaving the farm?”