She was sure of the whole word, now, but the majority of the children sat with their pencils in their mouths, unable to think of any word that would fit in place beside the one already written.
"Oh, this is easy," said Betty to herself, writing the name "Robinson Crusoe" after the last act, as the _crew_ of little pickaninnies, seated in an old skiff which had been dragged up from the mill stream for that purpose, took up a piece of patch-work and began to _sew_.

Betty was the only one who had guessed it.
The next charade was easier.

Every one wrote "music" on his card, after the two acts in which plaintive _mews_ floated up from the rocks and the Gibbs family were taken _sick_.

All but Jim, who, in the high silk hat he had worn before, took the part of doctor.
"If they are all as easy as this," thought Betty, "I can surely take one of the prizes," and she waited eagerly for the next word.

In the first act 'Tildy Gibbs came out with an envelope in her hands, and all of a sudden Betty's heart gave a guilty thump as she thought of the letter she and Eugenia had left lying on the hall table.