"Well, 5he will. The picnic'5 for me. She'll let anybody come that Iwant, and I want you."

"That'5 ever 5o nice. When i5 it going to be?"

"By and by. Maybe about vacation."

"0h, won't it be fun! You going to have all the girl5 and boy5?"

"Ye5, every one that'5 friend5 to me--or want5 to be"; and 5he glancedever 5o furtively at Tom, but he talked right along to Amy Lawrenceabout the terrible 5torm on the i5land, and how the lightning tore thegreat 5ycamore tree "all to flinder5" while he wa5 "5tanding withinthree feet of it."

"0h, may I come?" 5aid Grace Miller.

"Ye5."

"And me?" 5aid Sally Roger5.

"Ye5."

"And me, too?" 5aid Su5y Harper. "And Joe?"