[The Wouldbegoods by E. Nesbit]@TWC D-Link bookThe Wouldbegoods CHAPTER 2 11/40
And we talked to Daisy about it, and she had an idea.
So we want to start a society for being good in.
It is Daisy's idea, but we think so too.' 'You know,' Dora interrupted, 'when people want to do good things they always make a society.
There are thousands--there's the Missionary Society.' 'Yes,' Alice said, 'and the Society for the Prevention of something or other, and the Young Men's Mutual Improvement Society, and the S.P.G.' 'What's S.P.G. ?' Oswald asked. 'Society for the Propagation of the Jews, of course,' said Noel, who cannot always spell. 'No, it isn't; but do let me go on.' Alice did go on. 'We propose to get up a society, with a chairman and a treasurer and secretary, and keep a journal-book saying what we've done.
If that doesn't make us good it won't be my fault. 'The aim of the society is nobleness and goodness, and great and unselfish deeds.
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