"By the way, we have a hatchet at home that will be just the thing to bury.

It is more like a battle-ax than anything else, and looks formidable enough to represent the feeling that the juniors and sophomores are about to bury.
Now, Grace, you must prepare a speech, for we ought to have representative remarks from both classes.

Then Anne Pierson must recite 'The Bridge of Sighs,' after I have made it over to suit the occasion.

We'll have to have some pallbearers.

Three girls from each class will do." Julia planned rapidly and well.