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That open grassy spot in the dense shadow of the oods was just

the place for a picnic, and it looked very bright and pleasant that

wared, the

camp stools scattered over the lawn, and the bouquets of flowers

depending froiven it her whole care, aided and abetted by Dr

Bellamy, what time he could spare from Lucy, who, iather scores of bugs and worms

upon her dress and hair, screa the

doctor obediently to her aid

"I'd stay at hoh to be afraid of a

harmless caterpillar like that," Fanny had said, as with her own hands

she took fro, the

very sight of which made poor Lucy shiver but did not send her to the

house

She was too erly expectant of what the

afternoon would bring, and so she perched herself upon the fence where

nothing but ants couldupon the trees until the lower limbs seemed one mass of

blossoms and the air was filled with the sweet perfuly beautiful that afternoon in her dress of white,

her curls tied up with a blue ribbon, and her fair arms bare nearly to