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 have to pay for the things before we got them and it would take a week to get them here, I guess."

"There are nearly three hundred students in school," said Grace Lovering, "and if each only gave fifty cents we'd have a hundred and fifty."

"I know, but some won't give anything—a few won't, that is—and some will give nearer a quarter than a half."

"And a lot will give a dollar," protested Nell Sawin. "I'm going to give two dollars, and so is May, and Louise says she will give five!"

"Let's start the list now," said Louise. "Get some paper, Morris, and a pen, won't you? I think either Dick or Lanny ought to head it."

"I'm afraid I can't give more than a dollar," said Dick. "So perhaps someone else had better start it."

"You do it, Louise," suggested Gordon. "Five dollars will look pretty good at the top of it."

"I thought of that," said Louise, "but we were afraid it would look as if we expected everyone to give as much. And of course we don't want anyone to give more than he feels he can afford."

"It's up to Lanny, then," said Morris, returning with paper and pen. "Who's going to write this, and what do you want to say?"