The big camp-kettle was produced and filled at the stream, and then set to boil upon the embers.

Cups and spoons made their appearance.
Cocoa and biscuits were to be the order of the evening, followed by as many songs, dances, and games as time permitted.

Squatting on the grass, the girls made a circle round their council-fire.

Marjorie Earnshaw, one of the Sixth, had brought her guitar, and struck the strings every now and then as an earnest of the music she intended to bring from it later on.

Everybody was in a jolly mood, and inclined to laugh at any pun, however feeble.