This time, however, it was Mollie who plainly scored, for she only
laughed good humouredly saying: "Go ahead, Polly, you have arranged
everything else for me in my life except my name and you only didn't do
that at baptism because you were but a few weeks old!"
During the shouts of merriment, Polly, acknowledging her autocratic
tendencies, could only hide her diminished head on her sister's
shoulder; nevertheless, sitting up again a few moments later she pointed
one hand in a dramatic fashion toward the heavens. "Only hear the name
I have found for you and you will forgive me much, Mollie Mavourneen,"
she pleaded. "It is a part of our Camp Fire education to study the
stars, isn't it? Well, see the Seven Brothers, the Great Bear family
forming the Big Dipper in the northern sky. How many of us know that
those stars were shot up there to escape the wrath of their terrible
brother, Grizzly Bear, according to Indian astronomy. Now see that
small star just at one side of the handle of the Dipper, known as
'Sinopa'. Don't you think we ought to call Mollie, 'Sinopa,' when it
means 'Little Sister'?"
Overwhelmed by the general approval of Polly's suggestion, Mollie would
never have had the courage to oppose it, but fortunately had no such
desire and so as usual agreed to her sister's wishes.
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