. A family flight around home. ived before the boating party. The two boys brought the boat round to the spot where the A rOND LILY PICNIC. 167 rest were assembled, and after a brief rest, Tom pushed acrossto the part of the pond where the lilies were, taking the twogirls to pull them up. They found them not very plenty as yet, but with promise ofa large crop later on. Alice showed Bessie how to put her handdeep down and pull on the stem steadily in a perpendicular di-rection, so as not to break it off short. For Bessie had nevergathered pond lilies before. As they were eating their good lunch
. A family flight around home. ived before the boating party. The two boys brought the boat round to the spot where the A rOND LILY PICNIC. 167 rest were assembled, and after a brief rest, Tom pushed acrossto the part of the pond where the lilies were, taking the twogirls to pull them up. They found them not very plenty as yet, but with promise ofa large crop later on. Alice showed Bessie how to put her handdeep down and pull on the stem steadily in a perpendicular di-rection, so as not to break it off short. For Bessie had nevergathered pond lilies before. As they were eating their good lunch under the trees, theprofessor told them that the true way to gather lilies is to comebefore sunrise and to see them as the first light touches andopens the buds. They resolved to do this, and with his permis-sion, they left the smaller boat there for future excursions, per-fectly safe in that unfrequented region. Coming home, the twinswere packed into the wagon, the other four drifting merrily downthe river in the other 168 A FAMILY FLIGHT AROUND HOME. CHAPTER XIX. WORK IN EARNEST. WORK began in earnest on the next Monday, with reserva-tions in favor of the coming Fourth. The library was con-verted into a real schoolroom. Two desks, joined together, hackedand ink-stained with good service of years, were brought out fromretirement for Ernest and Augustine Stuyvesant. Hubert still kepthis table in one corner, by a window overlooking the Connecticut,while Tom was allowed one end of Mr. Bruces own writing-table,in the middle of the room. But Tom was only an honorary mem-ber of the class. He had been working hard all winter, and wasat liberty to please himself now in the matter of study. Never-theless, as the theory of the Horners was in favor of doing some-thing useful in the course of every day, Tom was reading Germanby himself with a dictionary, and was generally to be found athis end of the study-table while the others were at work. Professor Bruce presided, grinding the
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