adys took the book and began idly turning the pages. Symbolism
was an entirely new thing to her, and she was unable to decide on
any of the queerly shaped things in the little book.

"I can't find a thing that I like," she said to Nyoda when she
joined the girls in the shack.

"Have you decided on a name?" asked Nyoda. Gladys shook her
head. "Well, then," said Nyoda, "I would wait with the symbol
until I had chosen a name. And I wouldn't be in too much of a
hurry about it, either. Take time to look about you and make
your name express something that you like to do better than
anything else, or something that you earnestly aspire to do or
be. Then choose your symbol in keeping with your name."

"But suppose there shouldn't be a symbol in the book that fitted
the name I chose?" asked Gladys.

"Then we would be put to the painful necessity of finding a brand
new one!" answered Nyoda with a mock tragic air.

Here the others girls flung themselves upon Nyoda and demanded to
be told their standing in tent inspection. "Alpha, 97, Omega,
98," she replied.

The Omegas hugged each other with joy at having received a higher
mark than the Alphas. "What was wrong with us?" chorused the
disappointed Alphas.

"One bed had not been swept under, one pair of shoes were lying
down instead of standing up, and the wash bowl contained a
spy-glass," answered Nyoda.

Nakwisi blushed at the mention of the spy-glass. "I didn't mean
to leave it there, really and truly I didn't, Nyoda. I was just
looking over the lake when Chapa wanted me to help her move her
bed and I laid it in the first convenient place and then forgot
to remove it."

"No explanations!" called the girls. Nakwisi laughed and
subsided.

"Where did we lose our two points, Nyoda?" demanded the Omegas.

"There was a pillow propped against the tent pole and one bed
looked decidedly lumpy," said Nyoda.

"I knew you'd go off and leave that pillow there, Sahwah,"
exclaimed Hinpoha.

"I knew your shoes would show if you tried to hide them in the
bed!" returned Sahwah.

"Murder will out," said Nyoda, laughing, "I was not going to
mention any names!"

CHAPTER III.

INDEPENDENCE DAY.

"Girls!" exclaimed Nyoda one day at the dinner table, "to-morrow
is the Fourth of July. Shall we have a celebration?"

Sahwah looked at Hinpoha and slowly lowered one eyelid. "Yes,
yes," cried all the girls in chorus, "let's do!"

"Well, what shall it be?" continued N