“Guess.”
“I don’t know; we girls carried in ’most a hundred, but our piles were not so high as the ones you boys brought in.”
“Well, we counted before we left the office; there were thirty in a pile, and we brought over thirty piles—that made nine hundred all told, but the hundred you girls carried in makes just one thousand copies. Isn’t that great?” cried Ned.
“Then we can begin mailing copies to our philanthropists to-night, can’t we?” asked Norma.
“Yes, and bring your mothers with you, to help,” said Mrs. Talmage.
As everyone felt eager to get the thousand copies wrapped and mailed, the children soon said good-by and went home to tell the great news of the day’s work.