That Daring girl said, “Oh, I haven’t a single thing to suggest. We believe in action. Actions speak louder than suggestions. If you’re really ready to admit that you’re defeated I’ll make a proposal. It isn’t a suggestion, it’s a proposal.”
“Proposals are just as good as suggestions,” Pee-wee said.
She said, “Well, if you’re ready to admit that you’re balked——”
“Even—even—even the Germans were balked on the Marne, weren’t they?” our young hero shouted.
I said, “Well, it doesn’t look as if that giant with the brass buttons is going to surrender. If we could get some propaganda past him to the people in the house——”
“Like they did with airplanes,” Pee-wee said.
“Yes, but you see the shutters are closed,” she said. “Girl scouts are observant. It looks as if there were no one in the house but that horrid big giant.”
I said, “What do you propose?”
Then Dora Dane Daring said, “I propose to lead you to victory if you will print it up on your banner that you were saved from disaster by the Girl Scouts of America, and keep that on your banner till you get home.”