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From: Kreuziger B. <le...@me...> - 2010-04-08 19:59:46
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Ss Eleanor's been saying they would." "Oh, I do hope so! There's Miss Eleanor coming now." "Well, girls, have you chosen your fire names yet?" asked the Guardian. "You'll have to be ready to tell us to-night at the big fire you know, when you get your rings." "Why, I hadn't thought about it, even. Had you, Zara?" "Yes, I had. I think I'd like to be called by a name that would make people think of being happy and cheerful. Is there an Indian word that would do that?" "Perhaps. But why don't you make up a new word for yourself, as we made up Wo-he-lo? You could take the first letters of happy and cheerful, and call yourself Hachee. That sounds like an Indian word, though it really isn't. And what for a symbol?" "I think a chipmunk is the happiest, cheerfulest thing I know." "That's splendid! You can be Hachee, and your symbol shall be the chipmunk. You've done well, Zara. I don't think you'll ever want to burn your name." "What is that? Burning one's name?" inquired Zara. "Sometimes a girl chooses a name and later she doesn't like it. Then, at a Council Fire, she writes that name, the one she wants to give up, on a slip of paper, and it's thrown into the fire. And after that she is never called by it again." "Oh, I see. No, I like my new name and I'll want to keep that, I know." "I've always liked the name of Stella--that means a star, doesn't it?--so that my name and my symbol could be the same, if I took that." "Yes, Bessie. That's a good choice, too. You shall be Stella, when we are using the ceremonial names. Well, that's settled, then. You must learn to repeat the Wood-Gatherer's desire to-night--and after that you will get your rings, and then you will be real Camp Fire Girls, like the rest of us." Then she left them, because there |