f the work, substituting for other girls,
to want to spend a lot more time at it."

"You'll get the chance all right--don't worry about that! It's
Guardians we need more than anything else. It isn't as easy as you
would think to get girls and women who've got the patience and the time
for the work. But that's chiefly because they don't know how
fascinating it is, and how much more fun there is in doing it than in
spending all your time going about having what people call a 'good
time.' I've never had such a good time in my life as since we got up
this Manasquan Camp Fire."

"Well, I wish I could stay with you, and go on this wonderful tramp
with you. But I've got a lot of girls coming up to visit me, and I've
simply got to be there to entertain them. So if you're really going to
stay, and don't need me any more, I'll have to be getting Andrew to
take me back home again."

"I wish you could stay, too, but if you can't, you can't. I'm ever so
grateful to you for coming. I can tell you right now that there aren't
many people I'd trust my girls to, as I did with you!"

"I know it's a compliment, Nell, so you needn't talk about gratitude.
I'm the one to be grateful, I'm sure. The more experience I get before
I'm a regular Guardian myself, the better chance I'll have to make good
when the time comes."

"I'm ever so glad you feel that way about it, Anna. You know, there
are ever and ever so many girls who could do the work, and won't try.
I'm not sure that it's so much 'won't' as--oh, I don't know! I think
they're afraid--they haven't any confidence in themselves. They think
it would be absurd for them to try to direct others. I felt that way
myself."

"Nearly everyone who is at all likely to make good does, Anna. That's
the strangest part of it. When I hear a girl talking about how easy it
is to be a good Guardian, 'and how sure she is that she'll make good,
I'm always afraid she's going to fail. If you make the girls
understand they've got to help you, and that you know that if they
don't you won't be able to succeed, you get them ever so much more
interested."

"That's easy to understand. It makes them feel that they really do
have a part in the work. I noticed that about your girls,
particularly, Nell. They seemed to feel that they were all a part of
the Camp Fire."

"Well, that's the spirit I've always tried to put into them. I'm very
glad if I've really succeeded in doing it. It was a good