Kristy's Rainy Day Picnic

ng rain. "Every single thing is ready and every girl promised to come, and now it has to go and rain; 'n

er sewing-table at work, did not spea

rain another drop; it's

ietly, "you remind me of a g

?" asked Kristy

weather, but her own carelessness, that caused it. She cried and made a

en a very queer g

he reason she was glad was because her loss was

Kristy, interested at onc

n down the walk to join the girls in the hay-wagon that was to take them all there,

she put on anoth

and that was a new one made on purpose for the

ring into a world

she do?" a

mother to see, and then flung herself on the lounge with a burst of tear

y earnestly; "but why was she

ew days with her cousin Helen, who had been urging her to visit her. This was a great treat, for Bessie had never been to a large city, and there was nothing she wanted so much to do. You see, if she had been away at

ed close by her mother, eage

awford

"tell me more about her. Did s

ded to leave her there, and she stayed more than a week. There was on

t it," said K

other, "this is th