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"We ought to have at least one more hunting party," declared Chicken Little. "We ought--I shall feel the lack of that hunting party for years to come, Jane. There will be a vacuum in my inner consciousness. I shall wake up in the middle of the night sighing for that hunting party. But you see to-day is Wednesday, and we must leave Friday, and Frank and I have sworn by every fish in the creek to take to-morrow off for a fishing trip. Chicken Little, there is only one way out of the dilemma. Painful as it will be for you, you'll have to invite us to come again." The worst of it was that Frank firmly declined to take a single petticoat along. Neither Marian nor Alice could move him from this ungallant resolve. "My dear wife," Frank replied, "I love you, but I don't love to have you round when I'm fishing." "Never mind," said Marian with decision, "if we can't go we won't get them any lunch. Will we, Mother Morton?" Mrs. Morton was rather horrified at such a breach of hospitality, Dick and Sherm being included in the boycott, but Marian and Alice both urged, and she finally promised neither to get up a lunch herself nor to permit Annie to. Marian and Alice looked triumphant. Frank motioned to Dick and the two promptly disappeared. Marian quickly followed. "The villain! He's gone over home to confiscate that batch of doughnuts I baked this morning. I hope he doesn't find them." Mrs. Morton took the hint and locked up her pies and cake. But the two boys and Dr. Morton had joined the foraging party and food disappeared most mysteriously at intervals during the remainder of the day. A custard pie already cut and served on plates on the kitchen table, reassembled itself in the pie tin and walked out of the kitchen door when Annie changed the plates in the dining room. One entire loaf of bread vanished from the earth while Annie was trying to expel Ernest from the kitchen with a broom. The foragers were so capable that even Mrs. Morton ceased to worry about the men folks going hungry. But Marian's blood was up. "We've just got to do something to get even. The best pool for fish on the whole creek is on Captain Clarke's land and I know they are not going there. Let's take the spring wagon and drive over and get the Captain to go fishing with us. He'll take us to his own pool and with him to help, I'd be willing to wager we can beat these top-lofty fishermen at their own game." Alice and the girls were in
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