Show laffy E ury Tal T aai 1 wk ft bonner wr aien THE PLAN when john became eleven cloven ills his father gave him us as a birthday present part ownership in daniel the sleigh the buggy and the open 0 p a n runabout no birthday present C lit could have delighted 3 0 h a more for it carried w with it h it eo much it meant t that h a t n now 0 w john could take pan dan lot out by himself ever since he bad been a child john had gone out with lila ills father and he had now that they been be iod allowed to we were ro old drive all he fie had wanted and he was very fond of it hut but he fie had not lint gone out alone save for little rides to call for his father when ills business day was over down in the town or ho fie had gone on errands to the market or down to see the he old fishing couple who lived just this side of green bank when lie he was much younger lie he had pone gone to them for ish but now that they were old lie he went to fo take them large baskets filled with great bundles of sugar and ten tea biscuits and jam jain ho he had often been out alone with daniel often and often but this birthday present was different it meint meant that lie he could go off on sa saturday tu aday nf afternoons tern when ills his father had not already planned a trip with him with another boy they could go fishing when the spring came and when the trout streams were tilled filled with pink silvery trout they could go baskets basket over backs backa high rubber boots reaching to their knees stout coats and sweaters underneath to keep cheffi warm should it rain camp ing tig kit compactly comp netly packed with a dog johns dog for good company A camping trip without the dog would not be a camping trip the dog had become too much of a personage to be left at home and they would take along first aid to a dog encountered by a porcupine of course they would be careful hint he did not get far away fro from m them for then he was sure to meet a porcupine and have an argument which would leave the dog the less well olt off of the two though the porcupine would part with a number of his quills they could join other camping trips and of course johns fattier father would won d often como come too johns fattier father could camp as no one else could camp others camped well but his rather camped grandly the fire always went so well from the very start the steak was cooked to juicy perfection the potatoes linked just so the tea hot and refreshing and anyone knew that johns father would never even in the drnest season leave any fire behind hand him lie he airways know knew just how and where to build a fire ile he understood where the alre could creep through cracks and holes boles in the rocks to other pr patches itches where the grass was hurt hard and dry and inflammable lie ile knew the true oven rocks hut but was a in being given an actual part ownership in daniel it lifted john to the level in manhood it waa winter when johns birthday occurred and the first opportunity port unity for hav ing ills his part own enship in daniel realized reali sed was w when h e n Bent beatrices rices mother who lived in the next street at the top of the hill sent out invitations for a dinner party lt it was as to he be they could go oven elven down the fishing p road nebout eighteen miles through the woods wooda at a club to which all the fathers belonged n and d which they used us its a shelter abode during rainy periods on oil cal camping liping trips sometimes in the winter they opened it for matters dinners and lances dances and all the mothers and fathers would drive down early on saturdays find and come home very late in the evening but this was the first time a daughter find given a party here beatrices Bent rices moth nio th er would he be the only adult present such was the gorgeous plan |