“There come Patty and the girls now; let’s ask them.”
“O, Miss Patty, how about our having stunt night next week?”
“I have been thinking about that, girls. Who has an idea?”
Nobody seemed to have one.
“They have had everything there is to have, I’m afraid,” said Lilian.
“Well, let me relieve your minds, then,” said Patricia. “I had an idea several days ago and have been trying to get it a little more clearly outlined.” At this point Cathalina gave a meaning nod to Lilian which Patty caught. “Yes, you think ‘the poor English teacher,’ don’t you?”
“It reminded me of outlines,” Cathalina acknowledged.
“We must have a meeting tomorrow and I will tell you just what I think we can do.”
At the morrow’s meeting the girls enthusiastically approved Miss West’s idea, applauded the productions already in hand and thanked her warmly for taking the responsibility. It was, to be sure, hers as councillor to see that the girls had some sort of entertainment ready for their turn at stunt night, but these girls, as good campers, were always willing to do their share and had no desire to take advantage of their young councillor. Some of the parts were given out and the girls began to learn them. They considered it pure fun, for there was required no serious preparation.
The canoe trip to Brunswick was next on the list of trips. The canoes, stripped of their decorations, bore the jolly campers away, around Marshmallow Point into Merrymeeting Bay, to the left, past Brick Island of Captain Kidd fame, and on up the Androscoggin river, the war canoe in the lead. So many wanted to go that each of the smaller canoes bore three. Some of the little girls who could not paddle were among those who sat more or less comfortably on life preservers in the middle. Or it would be one of the older girls who took the middle position, to change places with some tired paddler in bow or stern as need might be. The girls were reminded of the rules that no one was to change places in midstream. They must paddle to shore and make the adjustment. Lunch was distributed among the canoes, for the launches could not go up the shallow Androscoggin.