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yoda, "a flag raising and a bonfire and some canoe races?" "Oh, a flag raising by all means," said Migwan, "they always have one in the Scout camps. My brother is a Scout and he thinks it's awful because we don't have more flag exercises." "Where will we get the flag?" asked Sahwah. "It's here already," answered Nyoda, "in the bottom of my trunk. I knew that sooner or later we would want it so I brought it along." "Who will do the raising?" asked Hinpoha. "Why, Nyoda, of course," said Migwan, "who else?" "And I move," said Nyoda, "that Migwan write a poem suitable to the occasion and deliver same." "Yes, yes," cried all the girls, "a poem from Migwan." Migwan demurred at first, but finally promised, just as she always did. "Wait a minute," said Sahwah suddenly, "where are we going to get the pole to raise the flag on?" All the girls looked blank for a moment. "We'll run it up on the diving tower," said Nyoda promptly. "We can find a small dry tree in the woods and strip the branches off and fasten it to the top of the tower and run the flag up on it. There, that's settled. Now, what kind of water sports shall we have?" Sahwah and Hinpoha exchanged glances, and Sahwah wriggled in her chair. "Wouldn't you like a committee to arrange that?" she asked, trying to make her voice sound natural and disinterested. "Why, yes, that would be a good idea," said Nyoda, "and I appoint you and Hinpoha as the committee to do the arranging. I am very glad you suggested that, for it leaves me free to go to the village this afternoon. Now, do we need any more committees?" "There ought to be one on seating arrangements," said Sahwah. "On what?" asked Nyoda. "Seating arrangements," repeated Sahwah. "Where to place our guests." "May I ask who our guests are going to be?" said Nyoda. "I don't know yet, myself," said Sahwah calmly. "But we ought to have some. It would be sort of flat to have a celebration just for ourselves. We'll all have to be in it and there won't be any audience. How would you feel like giving a show for nobody's benefit? So I thought we'd do it this way.. We'd have a committee on seating arrangements, and they would have to furnish the audience as well as the seats. Isn't that a good idea?" "It's an original one, anyway," said Nyoda, somewhat breathlessly. "However, I think you are quite right. If there is an audience to be had, by all means let us have one. But I g
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