'Move that the other committees be elected by ballot,' concluded
Scott Burton.
'This is simply disgraceful!' exclaimed the Chair. 'Order! order! I
appoint Miss Oliver Committee on Entertainment, with a view of
keeping her still.'
This was received with particular as well as general satisfaction.
'Miss Winship, we appoint you Committee on Music.'
'All right. Do you wish it to be original?'
'Certainly not; we wish it to be good.'
'But we only know one chorus, and that's "My Witching Dinah Snow."'
'Never mind; either write new words to that tune or sing tra-la-la to
it. Mr. Richard Winship, the Chair appoints you Committee on
Menagerie, and suggests that as we have proclaimed a legal holiday,
you give your animals the freedom of the city.'
'Don't know what freedom of er city means,' said Dicky, who feared
that he was being made the butt of ridicule.
'Why, we want you to allow the captives to parade in the evening,
with torch-lights and mottoes.'
'All right!' cried Dicky, kindling in an instant; ''n' Luby, 'n' the
doat, 'n' my horn' toads, all e'cept the one that just gotted away in
Laura's bed; but may be she'll find him to-night, so they'll be all
there.'
This was too much for the various committees, and Laura's wild shriek
was the signal for a hasty adjournment. A common danger restored
peace to the assembly, and they sought the runaway in perfect
harmony.
'Well,' said Jack, when quiet was restored, 'I am going a little
distance up the Pico Negro trail; there are some magnificent Spanish
bayonets growing there, and if you'll let me have Pancho, Uncle Doc,
we can bring down four of them and lash them to each of the corners
of Elsie's tent,--they'll keep fresh several days in water, you
know.
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