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Updated: May 9, 2025
Trains are becoming as obsolete in our family as the horse. We wish to take a trip: out purrs the motor; in goes the family lunch-box, a thermos bottle, and a motor-case of indispensables, and we are off. No fuss about missing the train, no baggage, no tickets, no cinders just the open road.
Just as the boy was about turning toward the school-master, he espied, near the hearthstone close beside him, sitting on a little red-painted box, Marit with the many names; she had hidden her face behind both hands and sat peeping out at him. "I will sit here!" cried Oyvind, promptly, and seizing a lunch-box he seated himself at her side.
But the tree next to the lunch-box tree was even more wonderful, for it bore quantities of tin dinner-pails, which were so full and heavy that the stout branches bent underneath their weight.
She stood ready, attractive, as Martin entered the lawn. "Say!" he whistled. "You did that in short order! I thought it took girls hours to dress." "Then you're like Solomon; you can't understand the ways of women!" She laughed as she handed him the lunch-box. Her calm efficiency puzzled him. Lately he was discovering so many undreamed of qualities in this lively friend of his childhood.
At that very moment the porter and conductor entered the car with a steaming can of the very comforting fluid Bess had just mentioned. The porter distributed waxed paper cups from the water cooler for each passenger's use and the conductor judiciously poured the cups half full of coffee. "You two girls are very lucky," he said, when he saw what was in the lunch-box. "Take care of your food supply.
I feel like a bird that's got caught in a snare." His uncle had grown very pale during this speech, and at the last words he recoiled with an exclamation of horror. There was a silence in which he looked at his nephew with the wide eyes of a man who sees a specter. Then he turned away into the furnace-room, and picking up his lunch-box brought it back.
His mother had been endeavoring to impress that idea upon him, from the moment it was first decided that he should go to public school till his books and his lunch-box were packed and he was on his way thither; and she had succeeded fairly well, for she had exacted a promise from him faithfully to avoid personal encounters as wholly sinful and unbecoming.
"Bill Kyler um-m," said the lady. "And where does he get it?" "Dennis O'Day, the man what owns the brewery and the wholesale house, sells to him. Big Bill drives down in the afternoon and comes home after dark." "Each Saturday, you say?" asked the woman. "Yes'm." During the conversation, Elizabeth had also been emptying her lunch-box.
They were probably as mischievous, as shirking, as exasperating as boys have ever known how to be, but those little unwilling slaves of art in the Middle Ages make an appeal to the imagination more vivid than that of the shabby lunch-box boy of to-day. Accessory to the weavers, and almost as important, were the dyers who prepared the thread for use.
Miss Sterling had risen and gone over to the lunch-box, where she was trying to open a second thermos bottle. "Let me do that for you!" He sprang to help her. She stepped back heedlessly, her foot slipped, and with a sharp cry she fell on the smooth slope. Polly and Mr. Randolph reached her together. "Are you hurt?" Polly's voice was distressed. "Any damage done?"
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