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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
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