first
meeting, may have the needed information in season."

"I hope Grandma Elsie will buy the things," said Lulu. "Don't you all
vote for that, girls?"

"Yes; yes, indeed; if she will," they all answered, and were pleased
that she at once consented to do so.

"Are we boys to be shut out of all this?" asked Max. "I don't see why we
shouldn't take hold of such work as well as the girls. I'm conceited
enough to think I could wield a pair of shears and cut out garments, by
a pattern or under instruction; and I know I can run a sewing machine,
for I've tried it."

"And certainly we could all help with the financial part," said Chester
Dinsmore.

"Let's take them in," said Sydney. "We want all the money we can get."

"Of course we do," said Lora; "the more money we have the more good we
may hope to do."

The others seemed to see the force of the argument and voted unanimously
for the admission of the lads.

"What about home and foreign missionary societies?" asked Evelyn. "I
thought we had decided to have one of each just among ourselves. Was it
the girls only? or will the boys take part in them too?"

"Of course we will, if you'll let us," replied Max; "and you can't have
too much money for them, seeing there are millions upon millions of
heathen to be taught and furnished with Bibles."

"Yes," said the captain, "boys should be as much interested in mission
work as girls, and I see no reason why you young relatives and friends
should not work together.

"But with your studies and other duties to attend to, you have hardly
time for such a multiplication of societies, and as the work is one, the
field the world, I propose that you form only one more society, which
shall be for both home and foreign missions."

"A very good plan, I think," commented Grandpa Dinsmore.

"And I propose that we proceed at once to organize such a society," said
Zoe.

"And shouldn't we have gentlemen officers?" asked Lulu. "I think Uncle
Harold would make a good president."

"Thank you," said he, smiling pleasantly on her, "but I could not serve;
because I must be off to college directly."

"And the same objection applies to all of us except Max and little
Walter," added Chester Dinsmore. "We older lads can only pay our dues
and perhaps meet with you occasionally when at home on a vacation."

"Working for the good cause in the meantime, in whatever place we are,"
added Harold.

"Shall we proceed to organize?" asked Zoe.

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