entire week, as this duty did not require much time, but there
was a different Breakfast, Dinner and Supper Committee, each pair
serving a whole week at their job. Up until Gladys's arrival
there had been only seven in camp and Nyoda had been working
alone, but now the division was equal. Gladys was assigned to the
supper committee for the rest of the week with Migwan as a
partner, for Nyoda thought it would help her get acquainted
faster to let her work with one of the girls.

As soon as the dishes were washed the girls gathered in the front
part of the shack, where there was an old piano, and sang hymns
and camp songs. "Let's pick out some hymns to learn by heart,"
suggested Nyoda; "think how lovely they'll sound, sung out on the
lake in canoes." Nyoda's suggestion found favor with the girls,
and they set immediately to work learning the "Crusaders' Hymn."

"Do you know," said Nyoda from her seat on the piano stool, after
they had sung it through a couple of times, "I believe that the
last verse of that song should be sung first. The climax seems
be in the first verse, and the rest, beginning with the last,
merely lead up to it. Try it that way once."

The girls sang it through in the new order and declared they
liked the effect much better, so the change was adopted. Migwan
and Nyoda sang a strong alto, and Sahwah a clear, though somewhat
uncertain, high tenor, so the little band succeeded in making a
considerable amount of harmony. A tiny song bird, perched on the
limb of a tall pine tree just before the shack, blended his notes
with theirs and poured out his enjoyment of the universe in a
thrilling flood of song. The girls sang their hymn over and over