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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