80 CAROLINE.
The rocks and precipices. Invitations to the party. Plan of the party.

Livingston was particularly interested in the aspect of
the rocks and mountains behind Mrs. Henry’s house.
He proposed to Wallace to go up there with him, at once.
Wallace said that there would not be time to go up before
tea,—and after tea it would be nearly dark. Livingston
then proposed that they should get up e&rly the next
morning, and climb up to a certain summit that he
pointed cut, before sunrise. To this plan Wallace readily
agreed. Phonny and Malleville wished to go too, but
when the morning came, and Wallace called them, they
were too sleepy to get up. So Livingston and Wallace
went alone, and they had a very pleasant excursion.

During that day the invitations came for Caroline’s
party. ‘There were five persons invited from Mrs. Henry’s,
namely, Livingston, Wallace, Beechnut, Malleville, and
Phonny. Malleville was greatly delighted at receiving
her note, and she danced about with it for joy. Living-
ston said that he was glad that there was going to be a
party; for he should hke very much to see the girls and
boys of Franconia together. Beechnut, as soon as he
had read his note, sent Malleville to carry it up-stairs to
his room, and put it in a certain drawer there.

“You will go to Caroline’s party, will you not?”
said she, walking away backward with the note in her
hand.

“In the evening, some time,” said Beechnut. “1 will
come in season to bring you safely home.”

The plan of the party was for the company to assemble
at five o’clock. They were to spend one hour in the gar-
dens and grounds, and then to go into the house for tea,
at six o’clock. Taking tea was to occupy about half an
hour, and after that there were to be two hours for games