“Share it with your brethren and if it isn’t too wild to harness we may train it to do good service for us,” said Zan.
“Well, you see, there’s Nita and you and me—we all have goodly sized grass-places back of our houses. Why couldn’t we raise some tents as long as the weather is good and camp out there at night?” said Jane exultantly, for she thought she had anticipated the Guide’s plan.
“That’s all right, Jane, but maybe Hilda and Elena and Miss Miller wouldn’t care to trot from their homes every night to sleep in our back yards,” replied Zan, ludicrously as usual.
The others laughed at the picture outlined by her words, and Miss Miller added: “I think we have a more important problem than camps just now. Let us decide about the new Band first and discuss the out-door sleeping question afterward.”
“I thought you wanted us to settle the matter before the new members join us to-night?” returned Nita.
“So I do, but let us first find out who the new members will be, and then we can better judge whether they will accept this camping-out-doors idea,” answered the Guide.
“Frances and Anne Mason told me to be sure and vote them in at this meeting. They are just crazy to join,” declared Jane Hubert.
“And Eleanor Wilbur wants to join us,” said Nita.
“Mildred Howell told Fiji to tell me not to forget and propose her,” ventured Zan.
“And I know that Ethel Clifford wants to belong to our first Band,” added Elena.