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the library to the dining room, through
the dining-room into a rear hall which
led out upon a back porch, .Fron the
back porch they descended to the yard
and went on to the great old rambling
barn and carriage shed. At a tap on the
door from Bertha the great nail-studded
door swung open and the guests entered.
Then they stood open-mouthed and
open-eyed, wondering. Before them was
a very pretty picture. The rafters of the
barn had been draped with evergreen
boughs, making the ceiling over their
heads to resemble the interlaced branches
of a forest. About the side walls other
branches hung, with here and there great
bunches of red berries. And about the
floor under their feet soft hay was scat
tered, and in every nook and corner of
the old barn stood pots and tubs of flow
ering plants, palms and ferns. Mrs.
Avery had robbed her conservatory for
the occasion. Across one corner of the
barn was stretched a low green curtain
on which was printed these words ; "The
fish pond." And lying conveniently near
was a long fishing pole with hook.
Down the middle of the room spread
on the soft hay was the picnic cloth,
and over it was placed the plates, glasses,
cups and the many good things to eat.
From the green branches overhead hung
pretty lighted lanterns, adding to the
beauty of general effect. Strong day
light poured in through two big win
dows, but this did not destroy the lan
tern light which was for the purpose of
giving illumination to the center of the
"spread." At either end of the barn was
a little coal oil heater, and beside one sat
Mrs. Avery, dressed like a grandmother
of long ago, knitting, while at the other
stove sat Susan, an old family servant in
the Avery home, and she was also knit
ting. Mrs. Avery and Susan were there
to keep careful eyes on the heating
stoves, for they realized that a serious
accident might occur should the children
in their play knock one of the stoves
over. So this precaution was carefully
observed. After the picnic guests had
enjoved themselves running about ad
miring the beautiful "natural forest"
they were invited to sit at the picnic
spread. Then four waitresses appeared,
dressed like little milkmaids. They car
ried pails on their arms from which they
dipped hot tea and chocolate to fill the
cups and glasses for the. guests.
After luncheon was over the waitresses
quickly took away dishes, cloth and left
over food, leaving the floor of the barn
open. Then Susan gathered up the hay,
piled it in a corner (Mrs. Avery telling
the guests a story while this work was
in progress), and soon the floor was as
clean as that belonging to a house. Sud
denly some music began in a corner of
the barn, for a small orchestra had en
tered quietly during luncheon, and had
secreted themselves behind some palms
and ferns. While the orchestra played
some of the boys and girls danced, while
others visited the fishing pond trying
their luck at fishing. One guest at a
time threw the line over the curtain,
and on hauling it out again would find
a comical little toy fastened to the
hook. Had the guests been watchful
they would have seen one of the little
milkmaids slip behind the curtain just as
the fishing began. It was she who
selected the "fish" hooked.
When 5 oclock came Mrs. Avery had
to call out: "Time for the park to
close. All will please leave the grounds
by the. front gate." lu0h, what a de
lightful picnic!" cried May Rogers. "I
never had so much fun in all my life. It
was a real woods picnic, for sure." And
this was the verdict of each guest pres
ent, and as . they reluctantly left the
"park" and returned to the, house for
their wraps, they voted Bertha's picnic
the "best thing of the season." ' 1"Well,
I hoped you'd like my picnic," smiled
Bertha. "But we owe most of the plan
to dear mamma, who knows how much
children love a picnic even in winter."
The Discontented Deer
A deer once became dissatisfied with
his lot. His home was on a high plateau
which was well covered with woods and
broken by beautiful streams which fell
in bubbling cascades at the edge of the
plateau to the valley below.
"That is a beautiful valley," declared
the deer one day as he stood and looked
at the pretty landscape spread out before
him, but many hundred feet below.
"How I should like to live there, and
yet it is impossible for me to climb
down the steep sides of this immense
piecipice. Just now I saw a little spar
row who had been twittering in a bush
at my side' spread his wings and swiftly
fly down, down, down, to the meadow
on the bank of the valley stream. Why
should not I fly?"
And the foolish deer thought so long
on this subject that he actually became
possessed of the idea that he could fly.
"Here I go," he cried at last ; "here I
go to the velvet meadows and the cool
shade of yonder valley ! "
Then he plunged forward into the air.
Well, there isn't anything more to tell
about the deer, but it may be said that
on that selfsame day the jackals of that
beautiful valley had a feast of boneless
venison such as they had never enjoyed
before.
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