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A SUMMER IN A CANYON: A CALIFORNIA STORY
by Kate Douglas Wiggin

SCENE: A Camping Ground in the Canyon Las Flores.
PEOPLE IN THE TENTS.
DR. PAUL WINSHIP Mine Host MRS. TRUTH WINSHIP The
Guardian Angel DICKY WINSHIP A Small Scamp of Six Years BELL
WINSHIP The Camp Poetess POLLY OLIVER A Sweet but Saucy
Lass MARGERY NOBLE A Nut-Brown Mayde PHILIP NOBLE The
Useful Member GEOFFREY STRONG A Harvard Boy JACK
HOWARD Prince of Mischief HOP YET A Heathen Chinee.
PANCHO GUTIERREZ A Mexican man-of-all-work.
CHAPTER I
: 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.
'Camp Frolic! Please let us name it Camp Frolic!' cried Bell Winship,
with a persuasive twitch of her cousin's sleeve.
'No, no; not Camp Frolic,' pleaded Polly Oliver. 'Pray, pray let us have
Camp Ha-Ha; my heart is set upon it.'
'As you are