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ced upon the dessert and prepared to occupy an extensive territory of ices, fruit, and jellied something or other. "It would be a sin for Aunt Mary to leave this famous battlefield without a few honorable scars! We must take her out in a bubble for one thing and--" "In mine!" cried Clover. "To-morrow! Why can't she?--I held up my hand first?" "All right," said Jack; "to-morrow she's your's. At four o'clock." "She must have goggles," cried Mitchell. "She must have goggles and be all fixed up, and when you have got her the goggles and she has been all fixed up, I ask, as a last boon, that I may go along, just so as to see everyone who sees her." "We'll all go," Clover explained. "I'll 'chuff' her myself and then there'll be room for everyone." "To the auto and to to-morrow!" cried Burnett, hastily pouring out a fresh toast, which even Aunt Mary applauded, not at all knowing what she was applauding. "And now for the next day," said Jack. "I think I'll give her a box-party. Don't you want to go to the theater in a box, Aunt Mary?" "Go where in a box?" said Aunt Mary, starting a little. "I didn't quite catch that." "To the theater," Jack yelled. "To the theater," repeated his aunt a trifle blankly, "I--" "And the next day," said Mitchell suddenly (he had been reflecting maturely), "I'll take you all up the sound in my yacht." "Oh, hurrah," cried Burnett, "that'll be bully! And the day after I'll give her a picnic." "Time of your life, Aunt Mary," Jack shrieked in her ear-trumpet; "time of your life!" "Dear me!" said Aunt Mary, "I don't just--" "Aunt Mary! glasses down!" cried Clover; "may she live forever and forever." "To Aunt Mary, glasses up," said Mitchell. "Glasses up come before glasses down always. It's one of the laws of Nature--human nature--also of good nature. Here's to Aunt Mary, and if she isn't the Aunt Mary of all of us here's a hoping she may get there some day; I don't just see how, but I ask the indulgence of those present on the plea that I have indulged quite a little myself to-night. Honi soit qui mal y pense; ora pro nobis, Erin-go-Bragh. Present company being present, and impossible to except on that account, we will omit the three cheers and choke down the tiger." They all drank, and the dinner having by this time dwindled down to coffee grounds and cheese crumbs a vote was taken as to where they should go next. Aunt Mary suggested home, but she was over-ruled, a
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