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Updated: June 20, 2025
And it makes you think of how much hard luck people have, and how easy it would be for people who are better off to help them, doesn't it?" "It is easy, Dolly. You know, I think Miss Eleanor must help an awful lot of people. It seems to be the first thing she thinks of when she sees any trouble." "She makes one understand what Wo-he-lo really means," said Dolly.
There the other girls, who had been greatly excited during the race, and were overjoyed by the result, greeted them with the Wo-he-lo song. Zara, especially, seemed delighted. "I felt so bad that I cried when I thought you were going to be beaten," she said. "Oh, Bessie, I'm glad you won! And I bet it was because you were on board." Bessie laughed.
So, with the strains of the Wo-he-lo cheer rising from the girls who were left behind, they started in the boat for the first stage of the short journey to Hamilton. Andrew insisted on going with them as far as the station, and as the train pulled out, they heard his cheery voice.
At the close of the Camp Fire Girls' program the 150 Boy Scouts arose and, with heroic unison of voices peculiar to much practice in the delivery of school yells, they chanted a clever parody of Wo-he-lo Cheer, a Boy Scout's compliment to the Camp Fire Girls, and then marched out of the auditorium and away toward the interurban line, where their chartered train was waiting for them, and all the while they continued the chant with variations of the words, the rhythmic drive of their voices pulsing back to the Institute, but becoming fainter and more faint until at last the sound was lost with the speeding away of the trolley train in the distance.
And it makes you think of how much hard luck people have, and how easy it would be for people who are better off to help them, doesn't it?" "It is easy, Dolly. You know, I think Miss Eleanor must help an awful lot of people. It seems to be the first thing she thinks of when she sees any trouble." "She makes one understand what Wo-he-lo really means," said Dolly.
"And let's give them the Wo-he-lo cheer for good-bye, girls." So their voices rose on the quiet air as the steamer's whistle shrieked, and she began to pull out. "Good-bye! Good luck!" cried Marcia and all the Halsted girls. "And come back whenever you can! We'll have a mighty different sort of welcome for you next time!" "Good-bye!
"Then they have a real meaning, haven't they?" "Yes. You see, one of the things that we preach and try to teach in the Camp Fire is that things ought to be useful as well as beautiful. And it's very easy to be both." "But tell me about the Indian sound of Wo-he-lo. Was that just an accident, or was it chosen that way on purpose?" "Both, I think, Marcia.
And tired but happy, all those who had contributed to the good work sat down to a bountiful supper. After supper, when the others who had done the good work of rebuilding were ready to go, all the girls of the Camp Fire lined up in front of the new house and sped them on their way with a cheer and the singing of the Wo-he-lo cry.
"Yes, I had. I think I'd like to be called by a name that would make people think of being happy and cheerful. Is there an Indian word that would do that?" "Perhaps. But why don't you make up a new word for yourself, as we made up Wo-he-lo? You could take the first letters of happy and cheerful, and call yourself Hachee. That sounds like an Indian word, though it really isn't.
And, as he went, the girls heard a merry chorus, "Wo-he-lo, Wo-he-lo," just as another train puffed in. "Wo-he-lo!" How they did thrill at the sound of the watchword of the Camp Fire!
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