up, "came across" with an invitation--an
invitation to that alluring Get T
gether at the winter palace of the Snow.
birds, then she would feel that a nickum's
rudeness was atoned for--and Jack at
a Pinch might go his graceless road, never
to prove a friend in need to her again---not
if she knew it!

"Invite them to the picnic ... and
don't forget the cocoa!"

The valley fairly bristled with the
promptness of it--the skilled directness
of the message, so rapidly, so spontaneously
given that the poised Lightning
on the crag was hard-pressed to keep up
with the meaning--to read the hand-writing
of fire and give the interpretation
thereof.

Old Round-top had seized the shining
hour. The Henkyl Hunters were no
"chuffs", no conundrums, with the strange
riddle of incivility up a sleeve.

' Invite them to the picnic--and don't
forget the cocoa!'" Tanpa laughed.

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