“We’d sail right into ’em and give ’em Hail Columbia,” declared Hazel like a vigilance committee chairman.
“Yes, we’d pull their hair,” said Marie Crismore.
“And scratch their eyes out,” Ernestine chimed in.
“And boo-shoo ’em away,” added Julietta Hyde.
“I’m positively ashamed of you for talking that way,” Miss Ladd interposed. “You’re laughing at yourselves because you are girls. Now, you ought not to do that, even in fun. How many of you can do some real boys’ stunts just as well as the boys can?”
“I can swim half a mile,” announced Hazel.
“I can do a fly-away from the horizontal bar,” declared Violet Munday.
“I can run a hundred-yard dash in thirteen seconds,” said Ernestine; “and that’s better than lots of boys can do it.”
“I can throw a ball like a boy,” said Helen Nash.
“So can I”—this from Marion Stanlock.