We'll sing a song while you're gone, and you can skip over and back in no time." So while the children sang the "Star Spangled Banner," Miss Hart ran across the street, and came back with her camera.
"Better wait until they get their crowns on," suggested Kitty, "they'll look a heap queenlier then." So the coronation ceremony proceeded.

The King and the Prince advanced majestically to the thrones, bearing the crowns on their cushions.
"Who'll make the speech ?" asked the King.
"You may," said Flip, politely.
"No, you're better at it than I am.

Well, we'll each make one.

You can begin." So Flip advanced, and holding his burden high at arms' length he dropped on one knee before Marjorie, and began to declaim in oratorical tones: "Fair Maiden, Queen of May, I salute thee! I salute all the rest of you too, but mostly the Queen, because she is the principal pebble on the beach.

Queens always are.