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The planets shone benignantly through the leaves of maple and elm; and the young grass was irregular, untouched as yet by the mower as we like it best who love our Madison! A week-old moon hung in the sky ample light for the first hay-ride of the season that is moving toward Water Babble to the strains of guitar and banjo and boy and girl voices.
Then I thought that when it is published all over the United States, Mamie Sue might accidentally see a copy and be hurt that she was not in it, so I put her recipe for fudge in with her name signed to it. I grouped Pink and Sam and the two Willises and some others as prominent citizens who were all Father's friends, with just slight mention of their being his guest on the hay-ride.
Ben immediately drew out his little pack, and handed her two. It was still light enough to read; and as Ben moved on, she stood and opened them. "This," she announced in a matter-of-course way, "is from Miss Dorothy Gwynne, who requests the pleasure of my company at a high-tea next Saturday. That, or the hay-ride, Will? And this this " It was a simple envelope addressed to
Annette laughed joyously as Philip lounged down the gallery. "I frightened the child away," she told him. You've never been for a hay-ride and fish-fry on the shores of the Mississippi Sound, have you?
"Mees Annette," she began, peony-hued all over at her own boldness, "we will have one lil' hay-ride this night, and a fish-fry at the end. Will you come?" Annette sprang to her feet in delight. "Will I come? Certainly. How delightful! You are so good to ask me. What shall what time " But Natalie's pink bonnet had fled precipitately down the shaded walk.
"Won't you be sick of it!" said Alfred, in answer to one of Katie's outbursts, "and long, when Saturday comes, to go out nutting with the girls, or off on a hay-ride, or something! You'll wish you were free before you've been a slave many months, or I'm no prophet." "Well, she shall be free if she wants to," said Eric, kindly.
Schwirtz was generous; he invited all the boarders to a hay-ride picnic at Hawkins's Pond, followed by a barn dance. He took Una and the Cannons for a motor ride, and insisted on buying not giving, but buying dinner for them, at the Lesterhampton Inn.
The stilly rhythm of frogs drowned the clank of their pedals, and the sky was vast and pale and wistful. Gertie, however, seemed less cheerful. On the last evening of his stay in Joralemon Gertie gave him a hay-ride party.
Till the old moon rose, sad behind tulip-trees, they sat on packing-boxes by the larger hangar, singing in close harmony "Sweet Adeline," "Teasing," "I've Been Working on the Railroad."... "Hay-ride classics, with barber-shop chords," the songs are called, but tears were in Carl's eyes as the minors sobbed from the group of comrades who made fun of one another and were prosaic and pounded their heels on the packing-boxes and knew that they were parting to face death.
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