his fingers, those little explosive rockets--the
charges of smokeless powder--which
being discharged automatically in flight,
would send the Thunder Bird upon its
magic way, roaring its challenge to the
world to listen, switching its rose-red tail
of light.

Then--then as the mist cleared those
deep, glowing eyes of his became to his
daughter a magic lantern by which she saw
a series of pictures thrown upon the sheeting
whitewash of the laboratory wall,
culminating in one which was almost too
dazzling for mortal girl of fifteen--though
born of a great inventor--to bear.

"And to think," she cried, rising upon
tiptoe, swaying there in the February sunlight,
"just to think that it's a Camp Fire
Girl--a Camp Fire Girl of America--with
the eyes of the world upon her, who
will push the button, throw the switch
upon a mountain-top, launch the Thunder
Bird upon its glor-i-ous way, send off--send
off the first earth-valentine to
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