"
"_I_'M going to get mad!" announced Patty, deliberately.
"You are!" exclaimed Lena Lockwood, in amazement. "I didn't know
you COULD get mad!"
"Patty gets about as mad as a small Angora kitten," said Jack.
"Yes," agreed Patty, "and I can tell you, kittens, like cats, get
awful mad, if they want to. Now I'm going to get mad, if you
people don't tell me all about this show, NOW! I don't want to
wait for meetings and things."
"I'll tell you now," said Guy, speaking very fast. "It's to be a
Pageant, a great and glittering Pageant, made up of floats with
tableaux on 'em, and bands of music playing, and banners
streaming, and coloured fire firing, all over Spring Beach."
"That tells some, but not all," said Patty. "You tell me more,
Lena."
"Well, the Floats will represent the Sea and different rivers and
all sorts of things like that. And they are all under different
committees, and every chairman has to look after her own people."
"And whose people are we?" demanded Patty.
"Mrs. Sayre has the general committee of floats under her charge."
"But the Sea Float is my especial care, Patty," broke in Guy
Martin, "and I want you to promise to be Spirit of the Sea. Won't
you?"
"Not to-day, thank you.
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