CHAPTER XX.
Battle of Missionary Ridge and Lookout Mountain.
Will had not neglected to take numerous photographs of Summit Island, the flag and staff; and with his kodak he had stepped outside the circle and taken a "shot" at them as they circled about the mast, protected from cruel Jack Frost by a wall of fire, as they awakened the echoes in these hyperborean regions in the lively strains of North Pole March.
He exhibited this photograph to them on the following day, and all were delighted with it.
"Oh, I wish you would give me several of these, Mr. Marsh!" cried Mattie. "I wish to give them to my friends."
"You shall have all you want of them, Mattie, upon just one condition," he answered.
"And what is that?"
"Don't call me Mr. Marsh again on this trip. No formalities should be allowed among the Children of the Skies."
"Agreed, Mist—Will," replied Mattie, gaily. "You may put me down for one dozen on those terms."