shore jumped sharply down to the water.
Yesterday it had been wreathed with
boughs for the coming festival: the swimming
structure, naively composed of two
great barrels, boarded over, with a broad
plank, as a bridge, running out ashore.

To it a couple of shining canoes and two
broad camp boats were moored; it also
served as a springboard for diving.

Built by girl-carpenters themselves--with
a little masculine help--presently
to be garlanded with daisy-chains and
buttercups, for the June carnival, and to
hide its crudity, it stood, so the Guardian
thought, exquisitely for the practical and
the poetic in Camp Fire life, which ever in
"glorifying Work" seeks Beauty!

The sun was seeking that too, just now,
gloating over his own noble reflection in the
green-lipped Bowl,--benevolently promising,
indeed, a day hot for the season, as
well as radiant.

"Yes! the temperature has taken a leap
ahead," said Tanpa musingly. "I think
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