“Not in the good times?” said Miss Walsh, helping her out.
“Yes, ma'am; and I do wish I could do something for some of them.”
“So do I,” said several of the others.
“I suppose,” suggested Edith, “the faster we send the gospel to those countries the better it will be for the girls and everybody.”
“Couldn't we raise more money this year, enough to support another school, or to pay for a girl or boy in a boarding-school somewhere?” Rosa proposed.
“In that case we should have to double, or more than double, our usual amount,” said Miss Walsh. “The question is, can we do that?”
“Oh, do let us try!” exclaimed several of the girls.
Then they began forthwith to make plans for raising more money.
“Of course the more members we have, the more money we'll raise,” said Mary Cresswell, “so I think we'd better try again to get others to join our band. I have asked the Patterson girls two or three times, but I'm going to ask them again.”
“Better not ask them plump to join,” suggested Bertie Lee. “Just get them somehow to come to one meeting, and then they'll be sure to want to belong.”