CHAPTER VI.

BREAKFAST WITHOUT FATHER.

  
  

ii do not go tearing along as if
our lives depended on it, as

At OP SSR

ep x some girls are made to do, but
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AS we all stroll along leisurely,

walking first with one, then with another,
and. plucking the lovely wild roses as we go,
not without a few shrill screams at the sharp
pricks we get in so doing.

Presently we come to a field in which
there are numberless grassy hillocks, and for
which there are various names; we girls
generally speaking of it as the ‘ Knoll,”
while Jack calls it the amateur graveyard.
Having arrived here we one and all throw
ourselvés down on the inviting - looking
mounds to rest.