g it for several weeks, or since they first received information of the Grand Council Fire as a closing event of the first semester of the girls' s

titute as a Camp Fire Girls' school set the imaginative minds of some of the leaders of the boys at Spring Lake to work along similar lines, with the result that the faculty's cooperation was petitioned for the o

sin of Marion Stanlock, and naturally this relationship served to direct his personal interest toward Hiawatha Insti

est in common and many of their activities interassociated. They had rival debating teams between which were held more

this until after it was all over. The curiosity of the Spring Lake boys was thoroughly alive as soon as they learned of a mysterious "something big" going on at the institute. True to the character of real scouts they delegated emissaries, commonly denominated spies, to visit the stronghold of the Camp Fire Girls, get all the

o and from the Institute. The arrival on the scene of the Grand Council Fire was, as we have seen, a complete surprise to the girls. The Scouts well

Girls was permitted to continue for ten or fifteen minutes, while a number of short speeches were mad

"Some of us are going to put over another surprise just about as thr

t of their "surprise," namely, volumes of praise. To be sure, this did not come in the form of undisguised admiration. That isn't the way a clever girl signifies her approval of this sort of th

in the course of the eveni

es; we always do

e indelicacy may be excused. But the opportunity for a come-back struck her so keenly,

ripped up on an adjective in place of an adverb. The girl's eagerness was so evident that it struck everybody as funnier than the boy'

he emphasis on the "-ly" was so pronounced, almost s

ge school auditorium, to which all repaired as

ng their "quips and cranks," so that no merited interest in the doing could be lost. And none of it was lost. The presence of the bold invaders seemed to add z

cout's compliment to the Camp Fire Girls, and then marched out of the auditorium and away toward the interurban line, where their chartered train was waiting for them, and all the while they continued the chant with va