The Outdoor Girls in Army Service Doing Their Bit for the Soldier Boys

and labor and everything like that, but the Red Cross n

ways, with their knitting. Mollie and Betty were swaying gently in the big porch

awning, creeping up almost to the feet of the girls, while vagrant breezes, spicy and pungent with the sm

ing, and looking from one to the other. "I don't see

ptain. "I've thought of all sorts of things, from taking a course in steno

"I can't imagine you in the role of chief washerwoman to Deepdale, Amy; and as for s

may not be possible, at all-that we might give a lawn fête and charge fifty cents admission, a person. W

rgetful of the needles she still held. "We can have fortune-telling boot

ng to wind another skein of wool. "But if we have a

's worth," smiled Betty whimsically. "A dollar'

t for the sake of patriotism," said Amy quietly-for th

money's worth," Mollie argued excitedly. "Because th

of local talent' that we ought to be able to win over to our side, and if we really go into t

me so excited, I can't

edles about in a way

t. "I want to s

ng, and as far from danger as possible. "You wouldn't need a bayonet in the trenches, Mollie dear. The whole German army would drop de

r wild dabs and dashes. "There isn't a man, much less a woman, on this

to start a little wa

ly putting away her own

yet let a challenge l

ou start

nt in one of the big chairs. "Say, what was all the row about?" he added, looking with interest at Mollie's still threatening needles, and

while Betty once more opened her knitting bag. "If g

gasped in dismay. "Well, you asked me, didn't you?" he argued,

tter when you're not

re I interrupted something, and if I'm still

d of war," Mollie explained. "We cal

" said Allen, shaking his head sorrow

king up from her knitting. "I know you want somebody to as

he slang, on us," said Allen plaint

urselves we don't know," said Mollie impatien

ppened to remark that while we were killing each other off with bayonets in the trenches, the women and girls would be

ighed Amy. "And you made me lose a stitch too. Oh,

o catch it for you, so you won't have to rip out too m

admiringly from the busy deft

"It's going to be as elaborate an affair as possib

g each one of the flushed conspirators in t

y. "Isn't that just exactly like a m

ked poor Allen patiently. "I

raise a lot of money," she went on, raising her pretty head and speaking quickly. "When we decided to join the Red Cross, as you know we have, we didn't mea

here's a more patriotic town on the map than little old Deepdale, I should thin

"Oh, if you boys will only help, we'll be sure

Mollie practically. "Why can't we star

y, and beginning to pace up and down the porch as she always did when thinking things out. "All

king his eyes from her. "I'll bring

who can recite like a professional and-oh, dear, there's no end to the talent. And we'

you're counting us fellows in on it, you'll hav

erly. "And then somebody's relative was taken sick, and broke the whole thing up? That was

and hugging her rapturously. "Why, of course it won't take us a

door affair, we ought to have a big tent with a stage at one end, for this concert and sketch business. We could make it mighty

m. "That would be the big attraction. Then we could have little boo

eyes wide and dark with excitement. "We girls co

re goes Roy now. Won't you go after him, and tell him to be sure

g his long legs, and taking the steps two at

the steps to call after him,