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Indeed, at the April Fool party which the Hancocks gave to the U. S. C., he indulged in an outburst that startled them all. Margaret and James had asked him because the Club had formed the habit of doing so when they were undertaking anything special. The Ethels were quite right when they guessed that he accepted the invitation because he hoped to see Miss Merriam there.
When the Ethels told him that they were going over to the field that Grandfather Emerson was having cleared he insisted on going with them to hunt for arrow heads. They waited until a day after a rain had left the small stones washed free of earth, and they made an afternoon of it, all the Club and all the Rose House women and children going too.
It was the right thing to do." "How did you know about it, anyway? Weren't you taking flowers there yourself?" "No, ma'am." "What were you doing?" "I know; I saw him digging there one day." "O, keep still, Dorothy," Roger remonstrated. "You might as well tell us about it." "It isn't anything. I did look in one day to ask if they'd like some sweetpeas, but I found the Ethels were ahead of me.
"Hear him say 'Gertrude'," said Ethel Blue under her breath. "She asked us to. Of course we call her by her name. She's going to be our sister." The Ethels looked quite depressed, for calling Miss Gertrude by her first name was a privilege they knew they never should have. "I was inquiring what we're going to give Gertrude as a Club.
"Ayleesabet" everybody adopted her own pronunciation was napping in Dicky's old perambulator on the porch of Dorothy's cottage one Saturday morning early in December. The Ethels, their coat collars turned up and rugs wrapping their knees, were keeping guard beside her. Both of them were alternately knitting and warming their fingers.
"We'll ask grandmother to let us have the car to go and get her; it's so much more fun than the train," proposed Ethel Brown. "Um, glorious." The attic rang with the Ethels' delight at which they looked back afterwards with some wonder. The Rosemont schools closed for the holidays at noon of the Wednesday before Christmas, so all the Mortons and Dorothy were free to avail themselves of Mrs.
The water began to boil around them, and as it poured into the lock from unseen channels the boat rose slowly. In a little while the Ethels cried that they could see over the tops of the walls, and in a few minutes more another pair of big gates opened in front of them and they glided into another chamber and out into the river again, this time above the "falls."
"Can't continue under her care!" repeated the Ethels in unison. "Why can't she? What do you mean?" "Why, on account of Miss Merriam's leaving. Of course you know. I hope I haven't betrayed any confidence." "Miss Merriam's leaving!" exclaimed the Ethels as one girl. "We don't know anything about it!" "Where is she going?" "When is she going?" The questions poured thick and fast and Mr.
"The Ethels and Dorothy made enough individual fruit cakes for all our baskets, and we've put in hard pudding sauce so that they can be eaten as puddings instead of cakes." "The girls have made candies and cookies for everybody. That basket for the Flynns has enough cookies for eight children besides the father and mother."
Embarrassed but pleased the tall boy came forward and Della fastened on his arm a band marked CAPTAIN. Following instructions he mounted the chair from which Helen descended. Two under officers were chosen in the same way, and the Ethels raised them to the ranks of first and second lieutenants by the simple method of fastening on suitable arm bands.
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