“You’ll have to work that out yourselves,” replied Mrs. Bryan, as she usually did.
“Well, I can’t ask dad for much money,” Louise frankly confessed. “Times are hard, and me poor father needs his gold for the lit-tul ones at home!”
“Well, of course it’s premature,” hesitated Helen, looking up, “because the rest aren’t here.”
“Go on, anyway,” said the others eagerly.
“Well, I don’t see why we shouldn’t have a bread and cake and preserve sale,” she went on. “I’m treasurer, you know, and I’m sure we have enough money on hand for materials. People will buy things to eat when they won’t buy anything else. I’m sure, too, that we could get Black’s drug-store to sell in.”
“We’d need more than one cake-sale, wouldn’t we?” asked Winona.
“We could have two—or even four!” asserted Louise boldly. “We needn’t go for two weeks yet, anyway. It will only be the last of July then. We could have sales Wednesdays and Saturdays.”
“And get orders beforehand, and make what people want!” said Louise, “Oh, I’d love to do that!”
“Will it cost much?” asked Adelaide.
“The sale?” said Louise.