We're for home and mother,
God and native land,
Grown up friend and brother,
Give us now your hand.

and won loud applause. Little Sissy Moore knew only the
first verse, but it would never have been known that she
was saying dum--dum--dum--dum--dum--dum--dum--dum dum-
dum-dum, if Mary Simpson hadn't told.

Wilford Ducker, starched as stiff as boiled and raw starch
could make him, recited "Perish, King Alcohol, we will
grow up," but was accorded a very indifferent reception
by the Band of Hopers. Wilford was allowed to go to Band
of Hope only when Miss Barner went for him and escorted
him home again. Mrs. Ducker had been very particular
about Wilford from the first.

Then the White girls recited a strictly suitable piece.
It was entitled "The World and the Conscience."

Lily represented a vain woman of the world bent upon
pleasure with a tendency toward liquid refreshment. Her
innocent china-blue eyes and flaxen braids were in strange
contrast to the mad love of glittering wealth which was
supposed to fill her heart:

Give to me the flowing bowl,
And Pleasure's glittering crown;
The path of Pride shall be my goal,