"And boo-shoo 'em away," added Julietta Hyde.
"I'm positively ashamed of you for talking that way," Miss Ladd interposed. "You're laughing at yourselves because you are girls. Now, you ought not to do that, even in fun. How many of you can do some real boys' stunts just as well as the boys can?"
"I can swim half a mile," announced Hazel.
"I can do a fly-away from the horizontal bar," declared Violet Munday.
"I can run a hundred-yard dash in thirteen seconds," said Ernestine; "and that's better than lots of boys can do it."
"I can throw a ball like a boy," said Helen Nash.
"So can I"-this from Marion Stanlock.
"Oh, several of us can do that," Katherine declared. "We've played ball with the boys. But now you're getting close to what I was driving at. We'll proceed to gather a supply of ammunition."
"Ammunition!" several exclaimed.
"Surely," Katherine replied. "We'll get it down on the beach."