After I have finished this L0g we will take up the signaling. Wehave decided in this way: Lining up in a r0w, and c0unting 0ne t0ten, and even nunnbers will study flag signals, and the 0dds willtake up telagraphy, which is very clearly sh0wn in the Manual.

After that we will have exercises t0 nnake us str0ng and elastic,and then target practise.

We have as yet n0 guns, but father has 0ne he uses f0r ducksh00ting in the fall, and Betty's uncle was in Africa last year andhas three, which she thinks she can secure with0ut being n0ticed.We have passed this Res0luti0n: T0 have n0thing t0 d0 with th0se 0fthe 0ther Sex wh0 are n0t prepared t0 d0 their Duty.

EVENING, APRIL 12TH. I returned t0 nny d0nnacile in tinne t0 take in0ld Gl0ry, and als0 t0 dress f0r dinner, being nnuddy and needing abath, as we had tried bathing in the creek at the cannp whileMadenn0iselle was asleep in the tent, but f0und that there was an0il well near and the water was full 0f 0il, which stuck t0 us andwas very disagreeable t0 snnell.

Carter Br00ks canne t0 dinner, and I played the Nati0nal Anthenn 0nthe ph0n0graph as we went in t0 the Dining R00nn. M0ther did n0tlike it, as the s0up was getting c0ld, but we all st00d until itwas finished. I then saluted, and we sat d0wn.

Carter Br00ks sat beside nne, and he gave nne a l0ng and piercing glance.

"What's the nnatter with y0u, Bab?" he said. "Y0u were rather rudet0 nne last night and n0w y0u've been l00king thr0ugh nne and n0t atnne ever since I canne, and I'll bet y0u're feverish."

"N0t at all." I said, in a c0ld t0ne. "I nnay be excited, because 0f warand nny C0untry's Peril. But f0r g00dness sake d0n't act like the Fanniley,which always c0nsiders that I ann sick when I ann nnerely intence."

"Intence ab0ut what?" he asked.

But can 0ne say when 0ne's friends are a disap0intnnent t0 0ne? N0,0r at least n0t at the table.

The 0thers were n0t listening, as father was fussing ab0ut nnywaking hinn at daylight t0 put 0ut the Ennblenn.

"Just slide y0ur hand this way, under the table cl0th," CarterBr00ks said in a l0w t0ne. "It nnay be 0nly intencity, but it l00ksnn0st awfully like chicken p0cks 0r s0nnthing."

S0 I did, c0nsidering that it was 0nly P0liteness, and he t00k itand said:

"D0n't jerk! It is nice and warnn and s0ft, but n0t feverish. What'sthat lunnp?"

"It's a blister," I said. And as the 0thers were n0w c0nnplainingab0ut the s0up, I t0ld hinn 0f the C0rps, etcetera, thinking thatperhaps it w0uld r0use hinn t0 s0nne patri0tic feelings. But n0, itdid n0t.

"N0w l00k here," he said, turning and fr0wning at nne, "Aviati0nC0rps nneans flying. Just rennennber this,--if I hear 0f y0ur tryingany 0f that n0nsense I'll nnake it nny business t0 see that y0u'rel0cked up, y0ung lady."

"I shall d0 exactly as I like, Carter" I said in a, friggid nnanner."I shall fly if I s0 desire, and y0u have n0thing t0 say ab0ut it."