"Perhaps some of the dry goods people will contribute the materials."
"Maybe they will. But you mark my words—the cost of a little here and a little there mounts up amazingly in work of this sort and I know we're going to need cash."
"Tom's right," confirmed Della. "He's helped Father enough to know."
The idea of needing money, which they did not have, was depressing to the club members who sat around the fire staring into it gloomily.
"The question is, how to get it," went on Tom.
"People might give us money just as well as cloth, I suppose," suggested Margaret.
"I think it would be a thousand times more fun to make the money ourselves," said Ethel Blue.
"The infant's right," cried Tom. "It will be more fun and what's more important still, nobody can boss us because he's given us a five dollar bill."
"I suppose somebody might try," murmured Helen.
"They would," cried Tom and Della in concert.