“Very favorably,” replied Miss Lee. “If you can interest the young folks in it, I have no doubt it will work well.”
“O, I think it is a capital idea—I shall vote for it with both hands,” exclaimed Kate.
“And what say you, Oscar?” inquired Marcus.
“I suppose I must come into the arrangement, if all the others do,” replied Oscar, smiling.
“Not much enthusiasm there,” observed Marcus; “but we’ll excuse him, as he has been writing letters all day. Well, Otis, what do you say to the plan?”
“I hate to write letters,” replied Otis.
“Very likely,” said Marcus; “and that is precisely the reason why you ought to come into our arrangement, for we are going to try to make letter-writing easy and pleasant.”
“Well, I’ll agree to it,” said Otis.
“Of course you wont hang back, Ronald?” added Marcus.
“I don’t know about that,” replied Ronald. “Couldn’t I be mail-boy, or post-master, or something of that sort, and so be excused from writing?”