Camp-Fire Girls In The Allegheny Mountains or, A Christmas Success Against Odds

The Camp Fire Girls books is a series of fiction novels written for children by various authors from 1912 into the 1930s.

By : Stella M. Francis

"Wo-he-lo for aye,
Wo-he-lo for aye,
Wo-he-lo, Wo-he-lo, Wo-he-lo for aye!
Wo-he-lo for work,
Wo-he-lo for health,
Wo-he-lo, Wo-he-lo, Wo-he-lo for love."

Two hundred and thirty-nine girl voices chanted the Wo-he-lo Cheer with weird impressiveness. The scene alone would have been impressive enough, but Camp Fire Girls are not satisfied with that kind of "enough." Once their imagination is stimulated with the almost limitless possibilities of the craft, they are not easily pleased with anything but a finished product.

The occasion was the last Grand Council Fire of Hiawatha Institute for Camp Fire Girls located in the Allegheny city of Westmoreland. The classroom work had been rushed a day ahead, examinations were made almost perfunctory, and for them also the clock had been turned twenty-four hours forward. The curriculum was finished, and the day just closed had been devoted to preparation for a Grand Council wind-up for the fifteen Fires of the Institute, which would "break ranks" on the following day and scatter in all directions for home and the Christmas holidays...

01 - The Grand Council Fire 02 - The Boy Scouts' Invasion 03 - The Skull and Cross-Bones 04 - Studying the Mystery 05 - Girls Courageous 06 - The Punster Makes a Find 07 - To the Rescue 08 - The Eavesdropper 09 - Mr. Stanlock Surprised 10 - Mr. Stanlock Amused 11 - A Man of Big Heart and Queer Notions 12 - A Mysterious Disappearance 13 - Find Her, or I'll Find Her Myself 14 - Trapped 15 - A Pile of Scrap Lumber 16 - Helen and the Strike Leader's Wife 17 - Helen Declares Herself 18 - Helen in the Mountains 19 - The Subterranean Avenue 20 - Twelve Girls in the Mountains 21 - Thirteen Girls in the Mountains 22 - A Sleighride Home