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Updated: May 28, 2025
Then Cousin Jack marshalled his young friends into line, and they all sang "Star-Spangled Banner," and "Columbia," and "America," and cheered, and fired off mild explosives, and had a real Fourth of July celebration. Then the feast was brought on. The children sat cross-legged on the grass, and each one was given a tin sand-pail.
He had a small typewriter of his own, and he laboriously copied the contributions on fair, white pages, and, with Hester's pictures interspersed, bound them all into a neat cover of red paper. This Hester ornamented with a yellow sand-pail, emblem of their club, and tied it at the top with a yellow ribbon. Altogether, the first number of The Jolly Sandboy was a strikingly beautiful affair.
"Now, where shall the picnic be?" asked Cousin Ethel, ready to help along the plans. "There's a lovely grove over beyond the pier," said Midget; "we might go there." "The very place!" said Cousin Jack; "and we'll have a sand-pail picnic. Didn't you say your coat-of-arms was a sand-pail?" "Yes, that's the Emblem of the Club." "And a fine emblem for a picnic.
Then he ordered a dozen little tin pails sent to his own house. "For my picnic," he explained, as Midget looked at him wonderingly. "It's to be a sand-pail picnic, you know." As they neared the ice-cream garden, Marjorie noticed a forlorn-looking little boy, near the entrance. So wistful did he look, that she turned around to look at him again. "Who's your friend, Mehitabel?" said Mr.
I declare it made me hungry to see those children eat!" Promptly at three o'clock that afternoon the Sand Club gathered for the Sand-Pail Picnic. By making two trips the Maynards' big motor carried them all to the picnic grove, about a mile distant. Here Cousin Jack provided all sorts of sports for them.
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