The fun of cooking; a story for boys and girls . ed, all carryingbaskets, which they put down on the the picnic began! There was first the cloth to spread down on THE BIRTHDAY PICNIC 71 the grass, and paper plates and napkins to bepassed around. The veal loaf was found, a plat-ter of it tied up in a large napkin, and hot sand-wiches between hot plates, tied up in anothernapkin, and marmalade sandwiches folded inparaffin paper by them-selves. Last of allwere the orange bas-kets, each one twistedup in a paper napkinwith a funny little frillon top made of the endsof the napkin; and the
The fun of cooking; a story for boys and girls . ed, all carryingbaskets, which they put down on the the picnic began! There was first the cloth to spread down on THE BIRTHDAY PICNIC 71 the grass, and paper plates and napkins to bepassed around. The veal loaf was found, a plat-ter of it tied up in a large napkin, and hot sand-wiches between hot plates, tied up in anothernapkin, and marmalade sandwiches folded inparaffin paper by them-selves. Last of allwere the orange bas-kets, each one twistedup in a paper napkinwith a funny little frillon top made of the endsof the napkin; and thedates were in littlesquare paper boxes, onebox for each child. As they began to eat,Jack came up with a big, big pitcher of beauti-ful pink lemonade, and little glasses to drink itout of. Oh, such a picnic as it was! Such aperfectly lovely picnic I Out-of-door picnicswere nothing to it. And when they had eatenup every crumb and drank up every drop, theyplayed games until the attic grew dark; andthen they all went home, and the birthday ?Jack and the lemonade CHAPTEE V SUNDAY NIGHT SUPPER ONE Sunday afternoon just as the clockstruck three, the Blairs telephone rang;and after she had answered it, Mother Blaircalled Mildred, who sat reading by the window. ^^My dear, she said, ^*do you rememberhearing Father speak of his old friends theWentworths, whom he used to know so wellyears ago 1 Well, they have come east, and arein town for a day or two, and they want to comeout and see us this very afternoon. Now Ishould love to ask them to stay to supper, but ifI do, I shall have to stay with them and visit andcant help you at all; and Norah is out. Do yousuppose you three children could get the supperand serve it all by yourselves 1 *Why, of course. Mother Blair, said Mil-dred, reproachfully. * Of course we can! Youdont know how many things your children cando when they try! Now what shall we have? 72 SUNDAY NIGHT SUPPER 73 It ought to be something very good, becausethey have n
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