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Show DADDY'S kl EVEHIIIC g$ IfairytaleIiI MaryGrahamBonner THE PROMPT TIDE France loved the water. Mnnj wa the time ilit and A lie used to go down and piny among the rocki at Green Bank. It wii cnlled Green Bauk because above the rocks there was a mall bank or hilly mound, and tha grass there wna green, while a clump of 1111011 green fir treet hid the road from the rock. The rocki below and mo the They Could Climb ' "J0"" About above went off In to a point, but not so great a point as further down along the coast. Sometimes Frances walked down there, too. You had to go through a beautiful natural park to get to the point, and the point consisted of jugged rocks sticking way out Into the water. How splendid It was at the point when there was a storm. The break-era break-era dashed so magnificently over the rocks. But Green Bank was nearer, and there was something so cozy about Its rocks. Tou could hide between the rocks, and there were so many nice places to alt and have a little picnic. Alice and Frances used to talk there and play games there. Sometimes they were allowed to take off their shoes and stockings and slip about among the wet sand and slippery seaweed. sea-weed. They had grown used to the little sea anlmuls living In their shells which were attached to the rocks. At first they had scratched themselves many a time on these and on the rocks. But they had grown to know their rocks so well they could climb about now without becoming all scratches and bruises. "Before long now the violets will be out." Alice said, "and the Stars of Bethlehem, too, and we'll find Lady Slippers perhaps." "Let's go on Saturday and take our lunch and see," Frances suggested. "Yes, and we can get some of the other girls to go, too." "Oh yes," Frances agreed. "I wUh It was time for the columbines colum-bines to be out among the tracks," Alice sighed. "Well, we con't get every flower at once," Frances said, "and the park Is so much nicer than the way along the tracks." So they planned and talked of the Saturday picnic. "Let's have sondwlehes and ginger ale and olives and candy and cookies," Frances suggested. "Maybe I could get mother to make one of her chocolate-all-the-way-through cukes," Alice added. "Oh, do beg her," Frances urged. "All right," Alice agreed. "I think she will. She's pretty good that way." "Now let's talk," Frances snld. "Talk" meant their plans for the future. fu-ture. "L" said Francos, "want to be married mar-ried ito a man who makes speeches, Just as Grace's father does. Then everyone ev-eryone will clap and people will point to me when they think I'm not looking (of course I shall be looking very hard) and they'll say: . , ".'That's his wife there. They say she is a great help to her husband.' "And we'll have six children no, maybe twelve would be nicer six of each. And we'll have four dogs and three canary birds and some polliwogs In the spring when they only look like specks In 'the gray Jelly they live In. And we'll have rabbits and a dear horse and two automobiles. One for me and the children. The other for my husband. "The animals won't need one. Whnt do you think you'll do?" Alice changed her plans quite often. But she had two special fuvorite ones. When she had heard music she decided she wanted want-ed to have music, ail she wanted all of her life, but when she went to a cIrces she thought nothing In the world would make her so happy hap-py as to be a trapeze trap-eze performer. , Oh, to be way U) In the air, winging so beau- tifuUy. with ev- Up GrMn Banh eryone's eyes look- They termH. Ing up at you I She always practiced every trick the saw at a circus and was able to do many of them. Just now she couldn't make op ber mind. And then suddenly they noticed that the tide had crept up and that they couldn't get back along the beach. Up Green Bank they scrambled which was not an easy way to go. "It must be funny to be the tide," Alice said, "and Just go on and ou, and never plan at all 1" |
