“Everything’s so mixed up, we don’t know what we’re supposed to do,” Vevi added with a laugh. “We promised Mrs. Langley we would help her with the regular show. Then Mr. Piff came along and talked her into working with him for a bigger festival.” “In my country we call a festival a _kermis_,” Hanny said. “You should bake _ellekoek_ and sell them!” “What is that?” asked Jane suspiciously. “Thin cakes in long, narrow ribbons,” Hanny explained with a chuckle. “One sells them by the yard. In my country, the children buy them at the _kermis_ or festival. A child takes each end of the cake. They eat toward each other and kiss at the last bite!” “How silly!” exclaimed Jane. “I wouldn’t like that.” “I’d rather sell flowers,” declared Vevi. “Either tulips or tussie-mussie bouquets.” Hanny told the girls she would try very hard to attend the Wednesday Brownie Scout meeting. “I’ve told you about Holland,” she declared. “Now you must tell me more about the Brownie Scout organization.” “Our motto is ‘Be Prepared!’” Sunny explained. “I guess it means learning how to do things well ahead of time, so they can be done right when you’re called on to do it.” “You ought to learn the greeting too,” Vevi asserted. “When one Brownie Scout meets another, she doesn’t just say ‘Hi!’” “You use the sign of friendship.” Rosemary took up the explanation. “See, it’s done this way.” She held up her first two fingers, stiff and straight, token of the two parts of the Brownie Scout Promise. “The promise is this,” she added: “‘I promise to do my best to love God and my country, to help other people every day, especially those at home’.” “I know that part,” Hanny declared. “I guess you help out plenty at home,” Connie said. “Do you know the slogan?” Hanny shook her head. “It’s this: ‘Do a Good Turn Daily.’” “Miss Gordon says that means doing something for someone without being asked or paid for it.” “Things like setting the table for your mother,” Rosemary explained. “Or maybe washing the dishes.” “I would like to do something for the Brownies!” declared Hanny. “I know! Next week I will give you some of our tulips. We will have oceans of them in bloom by then.” “You can do something for the Brownies right now,” said Connie. “If we have our booth in the flower show, we plan to dress in Dutch costumes. Do you know where we can buy some wooden shoes?” “Buy sabots?” Hanny echoed. “Why don’t you make them?” “Make our own wooden shoes?” Connie repeated in amazement. “My uncle does,” Hanny said proudly. “He carves them from wood, with special tools. Maybe he will make shoes for the Brownies!” “That would be too much trouble,” Connie replied quickly. “If Uncle Peter is not too busy, I think he will do it. I will ask him. First though, before we go to the office, would you like to see our south field? The first tulips are coming into bloom.”