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
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