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[Illustration: Before either Tess or Dot thought to cry out for
help, they were out of sight of the camp.]




THE CORNER HOUSE

GIRLS UNDER CANVAS

 HOW THEY REACHED PLEASANT COVE
 AND WHAT HAPPENED AFTERWARD

BY

GRACE BROOKS HILL

Author of "The Corner House Girls,"
"The Corner House Girls at School," etc.

_ILLUSTRATED BY_

_R. EMMETT OWEN_

NEW YORK

BARSE & HOPKINS

PUBLISHERS




BOOKS FOR GIRLS

The Corner House Girls Series

By Grace Brooks Hill

_Illustrated._

  THE CORNER HOUSE GIRLS
  THE CORNER HOUSE GIRLS AT SCHOOL
  THE CORNER HOUSE GIRLS UNDER CANVAS
  THE CORNER HOUSE GIRLS IN A PLAY
  THE CORNER HOUSE GIRLS' ODD FIND
  THE CORNER HOUSE GIRLS ON A TOUR

(_Other volumes in preparation_)

BARSE & HOPKINS

Publishers--New York

Copyright, 1915,

by

Barse & Hopkins

_The Corner House Girls Under Canvas_

Printed in U. S. A.




CONTENTS

  I. Tom Jonah
  II. Something to Look Forward To
  III. The Dance at Carrie Poole's
  IV. The Mystery of June Wildwood
  V. Off for the Seaside
  VI. On the Train
  VII. Something Ahead
  VIII. The Gypsy Camp
  IX. The Spoondrift Bungalow
  X. Some Excitement
  XI. The Little Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe
  XII. A Picnic with Agamemnon
  XIII. The Night of the Big Wind
  XIV. An Important Arrival
  XV. Two Girls in a Boat--to Say Nothing of the Dog!
  XVI. The Gypsies Again
  XVII. On Wild Goose Island
  XVIII. The Search
  XIX. A Startling Meeting
  XX. The Frankfurter Man
  XXI. Mrs. Bobster's Mysterious Friend
  XXII. The Yarn of the "Spanking Sal"
  XXIII. The Shadow
  XXIV. Brought to Book
  XXV. The End of the Outing




ILLUSTRATIONS

Before either Tess or Dot thought to cry out for help,
they were out of sight of the camp

A kicking figure was sprawled on the roof, clinging
with both hands to the ridge of it

Ruth actually went back, groping through the
gathering smoke, for the doll. With it she scrambled
out upon the shingles

The dog was perplexed. He started after the man;
he started back for the girls. He whined and he
barked




THE CORNER HOUSE GIRLS UNDER CANVAS




CHAPTER I

TOM JONAH


"Come here, Tess! Come quick and look at this poor dog. He's just
drip-ping-_wet_!"

Dot Kenway stood at a sitting-room window of the old Corner House,
looking out upon Willow Street. It was a dripping day, and anything or
anybody that remained out-of-doors and exposed to the downpour for
half an hour, was sure to be saturated.

Nothing wetter or more miserable looking than the dog in question had
come within the range of the vision of the two younger Corner House
girls that Saturday morning.

Tess, who was older than Dot, came running. Anything as frightfully
despondent and hopeless looking as that dog was bound to touch the
tender heart of Tess Kenway.

"Let's--let's take him to the porch and feed him, Dot," she cried.

"Will Ruthie let us?" asked Dot.

"Of course. She's gone for her music lesson and won't know, anyway,"
declared Tess, recklessly.

"But maybe Mrs. MacCall won't like it?"

"She's upstairs and won't know, either. Besides," Tess said,
bolstering up her own desire, "she says she hasn't ever sent anybody
away hungry from her door; and that poor dog looks just as hungry as
any tramp that ever came to the old Corner House."

The girls ran out of the sitting-room into the huge front hall which,
in itself, was almost big enough for a ballroom. It was finished in
dark, dark oak; there was a huge front door--like the door of a
castle; the furniture was walnut, upholstered in haircloth, worn shiny
by more than three generations of use; and out of the middle of the
hall a great stairway arose, dividing when half-way up into two
sections, while a sort of gallery was built all around