She has pegged stones at your honor with good effect, she has even
captured a company of wild pond lilies in your very ranks, and now,
your honor, I plead for mercy."

The play of the children had, by this time, attracted quite a crowd,
for the bathing hour was over, and idlers tarried about.

"Fair play!" called a strange boy in the crowd, taking up the spirit
of fun. "That soldier has done good service. She took a sassy little
crab out of my ear this very day!"

Freddie looked on as if it were all true. Flossie did not laugh a
bit, but really seemed quite frightened.

"I move that sentence be pronounced," called Bert, being on the side
of the prosecution.

"The prisoner will look this way!" commanded Hal.

Nellie tossed back her wet brown curls and faced the crowd.

"The sentence of the court is that the prisoner be transported for
life," announced Hal, while four boys fell in around Nellie, and she
silently marched in military fashion toward the bathing pavilion, with
Dorothy and Nan at her heels.

Here the war game ended, and everyone was satisfied with that day's
fun on the sands.