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"Sahwah and Oh-Pshaw are on the boat already," replied Agony, "and Gladys and Migwan are just getting on. I don't see Katherine anywhere, however. Oh, yes," she exclaimed, "there she is down there in the crowd. What are they all laughing at, I wonder? Oh, look, Katherine's suitcase has come open, and all her things are spilled out on the dock.
Oh-Pshaw stared at her blankly, unbelievingly for a moment, and then a great joy came into her face when she realized that she had achieved her heart's desire. "Oh, Nyoda!" was all she said, but Nyoda understood, and the other Torch Bearers, having had that same emotion themselves once upon a time, also understood. Agony stared down steadily into her lap.
Here, you hold the baby and I'll make one. Then you give me the baby and I walk up and down while you sew, and the baby screams all the while Oh-Pshaw, you'll have to make the noise for the baby behind the scenes. Now, all ready!" George came in, with a yardstick tied around his waist for a sword, and made a deep bow which made the spinet giggle violently.
A dozen or more girls these were, still in the Minnow class, still denied the privilege of going out in a canoe because they had not yet passed the swimming test. Oh-Pshaw, alas, was still one of them.
She told them how the fear had come into Oh-Pshaw and what a great victory it was that she had won over herself down there beside the Devil's Punch Bowl. "And for that victory over yourself you shall also be known as Torch Bearer, for she who conquers herself for the sake of others is worthy to lead others."
She would never be able to do that, she reflected sorrowfully, as she climbed up on the dock before the period was half over, utterly worn out and discouraged by her repeated failures to bring her head under water. Beside her on the dock sat a thin wisp of a girl whose bathing suit was not even wet. "Didn't you go in?" asked Oh-Pshaw.
"Why, you can draw the curtain, you're not doing anything at the end of this scene!" exclaimed Nyoda triumphantly to Oh-Pshaw. "Second Soldier goes out after his one speech and doesn't come on again." "I'm a rocking chair in the last scene, though," Oh-Pshaw reminded her. Nyoda thought deeply for a moment. "We'll have to do without that one rocking chair in the last act.
Hinpoha was trying to think of "unsurpassable," and "impassable" was the nearest she came to it. Agony and Oh-Pshaw joined themselves on to the procession with alacrity. "We passed the Boy Scouts' bulletin board on the way over," said Agony, "and we saw that the Winnebagos were entered in the contest." "Were there any more entries?" asked Sahwah eagerly. "Several," replied Agony.
You'll have to draw the curtain. No show is complete without a quick curtain at the end. How can we have curtain calls without a curtain? Anyway, we don't need three rocking chairs, two are plenty." So Oh-Pshaw good-naturedly shifted her role from rocking chair to curtain puller. "Next scene, home of Betsy Ross," proclaimed Nyoda.
"Don't you think it's unladylike to have your muscles all hard and developed?" Oh-Pshaw buried her face in her handkerchief with a convulsive giggle. The voice, the intonation, the expression, were Carmen Chadwick to a T. But how did the Alleys know about her attitude toward bathing? She had not told anyone.
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