The Yale expositor., 1901-05-24

skipping gaily along, as they always
last Grace stopped suddenly and said:
'iNellie, 1 don't feel good one bit I
guess we'd better go back. I don't
2care4if the boys were mean, we ought
not to be mean. too, and tbs awful
mean to run away like this. The
lunch is as much. theirs as ours, and
it's most as bad as stealing for us to
. take it all. Come on. I'm going back"
And away she went on a run, with
Nellie following as fast as she could at
her heels.
The boys had not missed them yet,
and so they knew nothing of the girls
intended treachery. They seemed to
have recovered their usual good
humor; and ii was a very merry little
party that started few moments later
for the woods. What good times they
did have that day! What treasures of
woodland wealth they found How
good the lunch did taste, and what fun
it was to eat. it out there under the
green trees all alone. Yes, it was a
long, glad, beautiful cay. They en-
joyed every. moment of it., and stayed
lust as long as they dared. But at last
they decided that they must start for
home. for there were the flowers to ar
range yet, and there would be hut little
time to spare if they noped to finish
their tasks that night. 1t. was even
later than they lad thought, they
found, when they came TO the edge
OF the woods and saw how low the
sun had SUNK. So they hurried along
as fast as they could. When they came
to the fallen tree upon which they had
crossed the noisy little creek in the
morning, perhaps they We're a little
careless. and when it came Nellies
turn she slipped, and, with a little
frightened cry. down she went into the
water.~- The creek was high with the
spring rains, and the water was over
Nellie's mead; so 1t was no wonder
that it was a frightened, as well as
shivering little girl that Frank drag
later.
"Oh-oh. dear!" she cried; "I am so
wet and cold and all my flowers are
lost" and she pointed a trembling fin
ger at the basket which held all her
pretty blossoms and was sailing gaily
away with them to some unknown,
port. - @4s
Never mind" said Frank, cheerily,
I'll ger it for you. can't get any
wetter than / am now." and in he
plunged again, and in a twinkling the
flowers were rescued, and they were
on their way home; but Nellie's wet
clothes were very uncomfortable, and
her teeth fairly chattered before she
had taken many steps.
Suddenly Fred stopped and said:
Here, sis; why didn't l think be-
fore? You take my coat and then
Frank and will take hold of your
hands and run. and we'll be home in
a jiffy. There. that's right-one, two,
three. and away we CO." al
A few hours later, Nellie and Grace.
who had returned before the others,
were sitting alone. finishing the last OF
tho garIonds, wnen Nellie said, sud-
denly:
Oh, Grace, how glad I am that we
diun't run away from the boys this
morning, 1 am sure 1 would lave
been drowned, if we had" and sne
shivered again at the thought OF her
icy bath. 10
Yes, l am glad, too." returned
Grace. "Ar-. Nellie, l was glad all
day. 1 am sure we had much nicer
time than we would if we had gone
alone, and we would have felt SO mean
If we had taken the boys lunch away
from them"
+ Yes, so we would. And. Grace, do
you know, after this when the boys are