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"Eleanor, start the girls to singing that song I like so much that 'Wohelo for Aye' song, you know." In a moment the clear voices were raised in the most famous of all the Camp Fire Songs, and Holmes, with a savage wrench, got himself free. But it was too late. For, as the first notes rose, a window above was flung open, and a voice that Bessie knew as well as she did her own joined in the chorus.
We stick together, let me tell you, and Wohelo means something." "You needn't preach to me, Eleanor," said the lawyer, laughing. "You converted me long ago. I'll stand for anything you do, anyhow. You're all right you've got more sense than most men. It's a pity there aren't more girls like you." "That's rank flattery, and it isn't true, anyhow," laughed Eleanor.
For the older girl, the one Zara had pointed out, had spied Bessie's peeping face suddenly. "Look, girls!" she cried, pointing. And then, without a word of signal all the girls suddenly broke out into a song a song Bessie had never heard before. "Wohelo for aye, Wohelo for aye, Wohelo, Wohelo, Wohelo for aye; Wohelo for work, Wohelo for health, Wohelo, Wohelo, Wohelo for love!"
The mingled Fires of Work, Health and Love kindled the Fire of Wohelo, which each one separately had failed to light, and as the flames mounted in the big fire the little fires were scattered and stamped out, and the girls sprang to their feet singing, "Burn, Fire, Burn." A round of applause followed this masterly presentation, and Nyoda, who had worked it out, was called on to make a speech.
"If mother is going to preach a sermon with me for a text, Betty's candles will sputter and die out before ever she explains her word," Polly suggested. "Oh, the word is 'work'; Mollie wasn't so far wrong, though work may mean different things to different people. Wohelo means 'Work, Health and Love'," Betty explained quickly, still keeping her eyes on the candle flames.
"But if I am any better than I used to be, it's because I've learned not to think of myself first all the time. That's what the Camp Fire teaches us, you see. Work, and Health, and Love, that's what Wohelo means. And it means to work for others, and to love others, and to bring health to others as well as to yourself. Come down to the farm while we're there, and you'll see how it works out."
"I named it the 'Camp Fire Game. You play it like Stage Coach, or Fruit Basket, only instead of taking parts of a coach or names of fruits you take articles that belong to the Camp Fire, like bead band, ring, moccasin, bracelet, fire, honor beads, symbol, fringe, Wohelo, hand sign, bow and drill, Mystic Fire, etc.
Let us give them our Camp Fire call to welcome them home." "Wohelo for work, Wohelo for health, Wohelo for love!" The ten voices carried the refrain far across the country and somehow the echo returning to them from Sunrise Hill brought with it the suggestion of even happier days to come. The second volume in the Camp Fire Girls' Series will be called "The Camp Fire Girls Amid the Snows."
"Mid the pine trees, the long night through, The wandering breezes croon to you, They breathe a sleep charm of mist and dew. "Heaven broods o'er you with stars aglow, The hearts of Night is beating low, Wokanda watches o'er Wohelo. Wokanda watches o'er Wohelo!"
As the canoe leaped forward under the steady, even strokes, the Winnebagos began to sing: "Pull long, pull strong, my bonnie brave crew, The winds sweep over the waters blue, Oh, blow they high, or blow they low, It's all the same to Wohelo! "Yo ho, yo ho, It's all the same to Wohelo!"
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