Every person in Westmore was to have a chance to help in some way. Even the kindergarten children were planned for.
Mrs. Merrill was one of the ladies to provide the lunch. Mr. Merrill and Uncle Dan were to help dig the park. You will see what Lucy and Dora did.
On the evening of the eleventh, everybody went to bed prepared to get up early. Tools were laid ready, and also old clothes suitable for gardening.
Lucy and Dora expected to wake of themselves, but they did not have a chance. Just after six o’clock Uncle Dan opened the door of their room and shouted to them:
“In fourteen hundred ninety-two
Columbus sailed the ocean blue.
Awake, arise! though yet ’tis dark,
To-day we make our Victory Park.”
“Oh, Uncle Dan!” groaned Lucy, but Dora sat up and looked at Dan. Then she laughed into her pillow for almost a minute.