spruces. "Stud said it was just across
the lake from the girls'!"

After that--well! who could be interested
in gnat-boats when they had just
lit upon the ambush of a Puzzle; a puzzle
that would only open in a pinch and shut
up, like a Chinese ring-box, afterwards?

And, moreover, that woodland lurking-place
was just a bare mile and a half across
the Bowl from the floating barrel pier,
decked, as it was built, by girls' hands, and
from the great heart's-ease bungalow, now,
too, in process of decoration for the gala
time in the afternoon around the White
Birch totem; and for the blissful, far-off
event, drawing nearer with every shining
moment, the brilliant piazza, dance in the
evening!

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