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Updated: June 14, 2025
"I don't know. But somehow I feel as if something will happen," and Dorothy had sufficient reason afterward to remember the premonition. Picnic day came at last, and with it there drew up to the gate of Dalton School two four-horse wagons, the regular "straw-ride" variety. Mr.
"A dance?" "We had a dance last week!" said Maine; "at least the sophomores did, and we don't want to copy them." "A straw-ride?" "A candy-pull?" "A concert?" "The real question is," said Tennessee, cracking her chestnut leisurely, "what does Maine intend to do? If she thinks we made her Class President because we meant to arrange things ourselves, she is more ignorant than I supposed her.
She'll be more or less in your charge, Marjorie, so do look after her, and don't be thoughtless and heedless." "How do you like Mrs. Spencer, Mother?" "She's a very pleasant lady, my dear, and Delight is a beautiful child." "Yes, isn't she pretty! I'm so glad she's going with us." The straw-ride was of the real old-fashioned sort.
Poor Miss Parmalee, with her feet going to sleep, sneezing from time to time from the odor of the old straw, did not obtain the full beauty of the spring day. She had protested against the straw-ride.
Fair and dark heads, rosy faces looked forth in charming clusters. They sang, they chattered. It made no difference to them that it was not the season for a straw-ride, that the trusses were musty. They inhaled the fragrance of blooming boughs under which they rode, and were quite oblivious to all discomfort and unpleasantness.
Lem, sitting in his doorway and watching the clock, heard the approach of the laughing, singing straw-ride in which she had gone, with a long breath of relief; but the big hay-wagon did not stop at his gate. He called after it in a harsh voice and was told that "Ed Gridley and she went off to the hotel to get supper. He said he'd bring her home later."
Adams is going to take a big sleigh-load of us! Isn't that gay!" "Fine!" cried Marjorie, the delicate Delight quite forgotten for the moment, "tell me all about it!" "Then, mother," said Marjorie, as she started for school next morning, "you'll call on Mrs. Spencer this morning and ask her to let Delight go on the straw-ride with us this afternoon. Will you, Mother, will you?"
Marjorie exclaimed, as she finished a description of Delight's behavior on the straw-ride. "I think she's a little lady," said Mr. Maynard, with a twinkle of amusement in his eye, "and she was pretty well frightened by the noisy fun of the Rockwell young people."
"Haven't you ever been on a straw-ride before?" asked Ethel Frost, who sat the other side of Delight. "No, I never have. I've always lived in the city." "Stuck-up!" thought Ethel, but she said nothing.
Lo saw you coming, and nearly jumped out of the window with excitement," Angela told her. "I've written you all the news. We're going on a straw-ride to-night just the old girls that you know and like." "Oh, fine! I hoped we could coast anyway." Connie was delighted. "Honestly, Ange," she said, seriously. "You don't know how good it is to stop being grown up.
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