52 PLEDGE SIGNING AT TRILLIUM SPUING 



that banner a dandy? I'd give anything to 

 carry it part way." 



"Hold on, Tom," was Jim's quick response. 

 "When you can make a motion and talk the 

 way Peggy did at the L. T. L. meeting, perhaps 

 they will let you be a standard bearer. You 

 were not at the meeting when Peggy stood up 

 and said sort o' scared like, 'Mr. President,' and 

 then when he called out 'Peggy Johnson,' she 

 said, 'I move we have a new banner with the 

 motto, "We'll Crown Cold Water King." ? 

 Of course we shouted 'Aye,' when the president 

 put the motion, and Peggy is just a brick, that's 

 what she is, and I'm glad she's got the banner. 

 See her look up at the motto as though she 

 loved it!" 



There had been a little halt, but now "Left, 

 right, march !" came from their president, and 

 on they trudged with smiling faces all through 

 the village, each one trying to keep step to Dan 

 Layton's new drum. 



Chubby little Jim Patterson tumbled down 

 repeatedly in his eager excitement to keep, up 

 with the procession. Marcia Davis' mite of an 

 arm ached with the weight of the big basket 

 of ginger cookies ; but never mind, they were 



