"How may I earn another?"
"By some other achievement such as——"
"I can climb a tree."
"Tho can I," piped Tommy. "But I can't get down again."
"You ride horseback, your father tells me. You may win a bead by riding forty miles in any five days."
"I've done better than that, too, this season."
"That is two beads. You see you were earning them all the time and did not know it."
Jane was becoming enthusiastic. Mrs. Livingston was instilling the Camp Girl spirit into her almost without Jane's realizing it.
"What else can I do to earn a bead? I nearly ran down a man coming out here to-day. Do I get a bead for that?" asked the girl, causing her companions to indulge in a merry laugh.
"Mithith Livingthton, pleathe give her a bead becauthe thhe didn't kill me one time when thhe nearly ran over me," urged Tommy.