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She proposes to invite Beechnut. This plan approved.

Phonny seemed very much delighted with this arrange-
ment, and thus all things were settled.

Caroline said that the party was to set out from her
father’s house at eight o’clock in the morning, and that
they must all be particular to be there in time. So saying,
she bade the boys good morning and rode away.

Before she had gone many steps, however, she stopped
her horse, and turned round agam.

“Don’t you think,” said she, “that it would be a good
plan to have Beechnut go with us? He is such a help.”

Livingston and Wallace both thought very favourably
of having Beechnut invited.

“Then I will go and invite him,” said Caroline. “ First
1 will go and ask Mrs. Henry if she can spare him to go.”

So Caroline turned the horse up through the gate and
cantered into Mrs. Henry’s yard.

She dismounted at a horse-block which stood in the
yard, fastened her horse to a post, and then went into the
house to find Mrs. Henry.

Caroline found Mrs. Henry seated in the back parlour.
She explained the plan of the blueberry party to her,
and Mrs. Henry readily consented that Phonny and
Malleville should go, according to the arrangement which
had just been made at the consultation in the road.
Caroline then asked Mrs. Henry whether she could spare
Beechnut to go too. Mrs. Henry replied that Beechnut
Was just then very busy in helping build a bridge up
in the pasture, but said that Caroline might ride up if
she chose, and see him, and that if he thought that he
could be spared easily from the work for a day, he might
go.

“Tn fact,’ said Mrs. Henry, in conclusion, “I should