As the noise subsided, Miss Larkin smiled and said:
“Three cheers for the Jinks Club!”
The club saw nothing incongruous in cheering themselves, so this cheer was as loud as the first.
Then, the hours had slipped away so fast, it was really time to go home, so the Jinks Club adjourned, after hearty good wishes and good-byes.
Thomas and James agreed to drag the floats back to Mr. Henderson’s barn, to stay there until the Jinksies could attend to them.
So, after the guests had gone, the jolly crowd in the Maynard home spent an enthusiastic hour in discussing every bit of the celebration all over again, and congratulating themselves on its splendid success.
CHAPTER XVI
WINDOW BOXES
“It just seems to me,” said Marjorie, at breakfast one morning, “that I must go out and dig.”
“Dig for what?” asked King; “buried treasure?”
“No, not dig for anything, except just to dig. It’s so springish outdoors, and so—well, such diggy weather.”