Girls and twenty scouts, plus a couple of
invited guests, on a Together picnic.

"Are there any boys and girls who are
dying to come with me, to prospect for
water?" he put forth alluringly, to the
rhythmic swing of the big water bucket
in his right hand, painted bright blue.

There was an instant volunteering flutter
among certain green-clad girls and lads in
khaki, breezing up from the grass where
they had languished; others held back.

"I 'd rather explore the cave--I love
creepy caves--and we haven't been half
through it yet," said Pemrose Lorry.

Forthwith Stud, the Henkyl Hunter,
decided that cave-exploiting was the pas-time
for him; there was rarely a younger
boy--Studart was barely fifteen--who
did not become the captive knight of
this older girl with the sky in her eyes
under jet-black lashes!

Jessie, sister of Stoutheart, ehe of the
thrush-song in her heart, wanted to be
near to the girl who was mate to a Thun-
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