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I don't know anybody with prettier manners than the Maynards, especially the younger generation of them," and though Cousin Jack spoke laughingly, there was an earnest undertone in his voice that greatly pleased King and Marjorie. "Hooray!" cried that hilarious gentleman, as they reached the Maynards' veranda. "Hello, Ed. How d'ye do, Helen? Here we are!

The next day proved to be most kindly disposed as to weather, and the brilliant May sunshine sparkled on the big red car as it stood waiting for its passengers. There was more or less hurry and scurry of getting ready, but the elder Maynards were of systematic and methodical habits, so that really everything was ready ahead of time.

"Well," resumed Barry, "one day, after we reached Sydney, the skipper and I came to blows over the girl. I asked for leave told him I was going ashore to see the Maynards. He said something foul about the girl, and so I dropped it into him knocked him off the break of the poop on to the main deck. He was nearly killed. I got two months' gaol." Rumbling voice nodded again.

Maynard began, "as Marjorie says, Maytime is, what?" "Playtime," supplemented Marjorie, quickly. "Well, then, if Maytime is playtime for the Maynards, why shouldn't we play all through the month of May?" "Play every day, All the month of May, All the Maynards may Play all day! Hooray! Hooray! Hooray!" sang Marjorie who often improvised her songs as she went along.

Then Ethel's mother appeared, and the two ladies were made acquainted, and then it was luncheon time, and the Maynards all went to the dining-room. "I think the most fun of the whole trip is eating in restaurants," said Kitty. "I just love to look around, and see different tables and different people at them." "It is fun," agreed King; "but I wouldn't want to live in a hotel all the time.

At first she thought of taking some things in a bag, but she decided not to, as she didn't want any of the things the Maynards had given her. "Oh," she thought, while the tears came afresh; "my name isn't even Maynard! I don't know what it is!" She put on a blue linen dress, and a blue hat with roses on it. Some instinct of sadness made her tie her hair with black ribbon.

The guests were invited from three to six in the afternoon, and though the Maynards knew some of them, there were a number of strangers among the company. However, Stella and Molly knew them all, and it did not take long for the Maynards to feel acquainted with them. The first game was very amusing. Uncle Steve presented each child with a Noah's Ark.

But lots of this country here has five or six hundred-year-old families still flourishing. That's why Essex is so much more genuinely Old England than Surrey, say, or Kent. Round here you'll find Corners and Fairlies, and then you get Capels, and then away down towards Dunmow and Braintree Maynards and Byngs.

Partly because of the repression of the past few days, and partly because of the exhilaration of the fresh spring air and the fast speeding motor, the four young Maynards were in a state of hilarity. They sang and they shouted and they laughed, and often they would grab each other with affectionate squeezes from sheer joy of living.

A big box-sleigh, well filled with clean straw, and with plenty of warm robes, made a cosy nest for a dozen laughing children. Except for Delight, the Maynards were the last ones to be picked up, and when the jingling sleigh-bells and the chorus of voices was heard, they ran out and were gaily greeted by the others. "Hop in, Kitty; here, I'll help you. In you go, Midget!" and genial Mr.