When this
business was finished Aunt Zelie took up her box, saying, "The next
thing is the distribution of badges; but before I take them out I want
to say a word."
"Hear! Hear!" murmured Carl.
"No preaching!" begged Aleck.
"_Do_, Mrs. Howard, he needs it," said Dora.
"Yes, I am going to preach a little. I want you to remember that these
badges are to keep our motto before you. They mean that you promise to
be helpers, and that is something more than getting up entertainments
as we did for the harp man. It means being good-tempered and kind at
home and in school, doing little thoughtful things for people. You
remember in the story of the Magic Door it was because they forgot
this that the lock grew rusty and useless, so it seemed to me that the
most appropriate badge would be this." As she spoke she took from the
box a tiny silver key. On close inspection it proved to be a pin so
prettily and ingeniously made that anybody might be pleased to wear
it. On one side was engraved a part of their motto--"They Helped"--and
on the other, the letters O.B.F.D.
So great was the enthusiasm that all order went to the winds.
"Aren't they lovely?" "Tiptop!" "Dandy!" "Too pretty for anything!"
And no one was more pleased than Miss Brown.
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