“We’ll report to-morrow afternoon—where?” asked Tuck.
“Better say at Jim’s cottage—up by the barn.”
The two younger boys ran away to seek members and the other boys looked at each other.
“Quick work, eh? We’re in for it now, so we’d better get some plans going,” laughed Meredith.
“We’d better go to your room and figure things out on paper,” advised Ned.
So the three boys who started the Bobolink Boys went to the house and locked themselves in Meredith’s den to make plans for the organization.
In the meantime, the Blue Birds had joined the ladies on the Talmage veranda and their conversation turned to the work to be done that winter.
“I wonder where Ned went,” said Mrs. Talmage as Ruth drew a low stool to her mother’s side.
“He went over to my house to see Mete,” replied Dot Starr. “Shall I go and bring him back?”
“Oh, no, it can wait. I just wanted him to hear some of our plans so he could print it in the next paper,” said Mrs. Talmage. Then she turned to the others.