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he laughed good humouredly , guessing Polly 's secret scorn of him , `` but at the same time I expect to see something and if I 'm lucky to be something , though if I 'm a first-class farmer it is n't so worse . Do give me your plate , you have eaten very little and the rest of the crowd is getting dreadfully ahead of us . '' But Polly , jumping up hastily and the young man following her , led him over and introduced him to Mollie , with whom he spent the greater part of the afternoon . From two o'clock till sundown the hours at Sunrise , Camp were fairly strenuous ones since the Camp Fire girls insisted on comparative tests of skill with their Boy Scout guests . Of course the young men agreed , although they were pleasantly scornful , until possibly owing to their morning 's contest the girls actually won out in the knot-tying contest , which was supposed to be a peculiarly masculine accomplishment . In running , jumping and feats of marksmanship the girls of course were easily outclassed by their opponents ; however , Beatrice Field , who was so light and so small that no one considered her in the race , did come in second in a short thirty-yard dash . Then Miss McMurtry held a kind of impromptu examination in questions of patriotism and nature lore , the girls and men managing to about equally divide the honors .