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Updated: June 3, 2025
"It's horrid and misty out," sighed Gladys. "Do we have crew practice if it isn't a nice day?" "We certainly do," said Katherine emphatically, buttoning the last button of her bathing suit and departing to wake the others. In the next tent she encountered the same sleepy protest. "I didn't think we went out when it was misty," said Migwan, regretfully leaving the warm embrace of her blankets.
"Gladys!" exclaimed Migwan. "I thought she was planning a surprise, she and Agony were whispering together this afternoon. Isn't she wonderful, though!" Migwan's voice rang with pride in her beloved friend's accomplishment. "Too bad Miss Amesbury isn't here to see it."
They all appeared easy to her, as she had had such a thorough preparation. George Curtis groaned to himself as he looked them over, for there were two which he saw at a glance he would be unable to answer. Abraham read his and looked thoughtful. Migwan wrote rapidly with a sure and inspired pen until she came to the last question. There she halted in dismay.
The bat wheeled around, blind in the daylight, and went bumping against the girls, causing them to run in alarm lest it should get entangled in their hair. It finally found its way back to the dark corner of the Kitchen and hung itself up neatly the way Migwan had found it and the dinner proceeded. "What kind of a bat was it?" asked Gladys.
"Some of those little sample bags of salt," replied Migwan. "They were the only things we could find to put in as weights." "Salt's bad luck!" wailed Hinpoha. "Oh, whatever did you take salt for?" "Too late to change now," said Sahwah. Agony looked scornfully at the new edition of Many Eyes. "For goodness' sake, you aren't going to enter that thing in the contest?" she exclaimed when she saw it.
"Why not?" called Migwan in alarm, as the three girls stood still in the path, the water which was dripping out of their bathing suits collecting in a puddle around their feet. "There's a snake underneath the tent, a great big snake," answered Miss Peckham in terrified tones. "Well, what of it?" demanded Bengal coolly. "I've seen lots of snakes. I'm not afraid of them.
"Expiro" answered Migwan, "expirare, expiravi, expiratus. It means 'blow, 'Expiravit' is 'have blown." "Rufus is 'red," continued Sahwah, "and is albus 'white'?" Migwan nodded, and Sahwah went back to the beginning and began to read: "Who raw for red white and have blown." Nyoda shouted. "That last word is blew, not have blown" she said. "I have it!" cried Migwan, jumping up.
"Nice child," said Nyoda, patting Sahwah approvingly, trying to turn the laugh upon herself, on the principle that the hostess should always break another cut glass tumbler when the guest breaks one." "Oh dear," said Migwan regretfully, "why did you say that about Harpies, Hinpoha, and make us laugh?
"What are you taking medicine for?" she asked. "Oh, this is just something to tone me up," replied Migwan. "What is it?" insisted Nyoda. "It's strychnine," said Migwan. "Strychnine!" said Nyoda in a horrified voice. "Who taught you to take strychnine as a stimulant?" "Mabel Collins did," answered Migwan.
Migwan never breathed this desire to anyone, but if Miss Amesbury had only known it, a certain pair of soft brown eyes rested eagerly upon her all through Morning Sing, as she sat at the piano playing hymns and choruses, even as they were fixed upon her during meals and other assemblies.
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