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kindly by the hostess, and. after taking a swing and bearing Billy, the darkey, play on t Iii-- instruments at once, we returned as gailj as we went. Then followed the first night in the woods and the battle with mosquitoes. The timid ones wept and declared they would never stay another night. When the sun looked in at our tent we were sleeping sweetly, and after a hearty breakfast none spoke of ;oing home.

Of the two weeks spent at ••Walnut

"Is Miss B. here?" Miss B. was Ick not present. Then In- said, "Is Mi h e r e ? " S h e had gone to stay with tie one. '-Is not VOIIIC/ Mi-. \>. h e r e ? f <

lie, with a Low. ••! a m M r . ('. , of S t ;

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tor." Very reluctantly Mr. B. ml wel corned the gentleman. Mr. C. * at Sunday and Monday with us, and if h thought we were [inhospitable, we consid< d him .-i dreadful boor. That night as w< disp e r s e d , six of US s t o l e off a n d d t o tl " S w a n L a k e ( Hub H o i i s . f o u r m i h > «li.- nt.

Grove" each day had something to characterize it, l>ut this they all had in common— company. Nearly all brought along something good to eat, and this, of course, insure.| them of a welcome. About the third day a kind lady brought as three watermelons, and, as we were supplied with the luxury of ice, we had them deliciously cool by the afternoon, and, forming a party, we went forth deep into the w >ds, found a romantic spot Ip led to h.-ive a watermelon picnic. The main vocation was fishing. We frequently went at four o'clock in the morning ami fished industriously until the Bun v II up. It v. not, how i\ er, a surprising tiling to the fishers returning burI with naught but water-lilies. On Saturday, the motber one <>\' tbe me t < nd Sunday w it h us; so Saturday ''\ line \ [etermined to have an exdinaiil I time. \\ e gal hered -ticks rring swamo, and w h< • da rkI d< n ted the pile and ! i robi and mp st<'" a ad t hered jt. I ii d to furnish some tit. A nil >r mem ber i > our f p telling an int< ting story, o J>J I. \ t t h» i n c l u s i o n o f t h e ii bat, enquired,

It was a g r a n d night on t i c n

a n d we w h o w e r e SO fort u m a t

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that

row remember it as tie-most pleasant erience of our U-<c cam]) life. I must hasten over the jolly time had when an amateur phot pher can from a neighboring camp and took a pictui of our party over the many pleasant visit to the "Under Cliff Hotel," and our et ings spent at the neighboring cam] and the cam]) fire. I have not mentioned tl

t w o i m m e n s e s w i n e - , t h e h a m m o c k s a n d tl

croquet ground, where w idled many happ

h o u r s aw a \ .

We all walked to Putnam, a small town two miles away, one hot afternoon, to attend a Sunday School picnic. H< looked upon as curiosities not so much > r

Our ] >ecn liar a p p e a r a n c e a s tor t h e m a n n e r in

w hich we «lis|»ose,| of their i cream. The night t hat is I .t remembered 1 tin girls < f our party, was the last Saturday » night in camp; we had visitors from town who had tii• 11 \ determined not to 11 p thtmselves nor allow anyone else t,. sloei In this the\ BUCC I far beyond their most sanguine expectations, V >r, ift< i ing, talking and teasing us hours, I themselves, I" one w. .n\. But tin \ h •