“If that isn’t just like Harriet Gordon!” laughed Laura. “She is the wittiest girl! Didn’t you like her, Elliott?”
Elliott’s eyes opened wide. “What is there witty in saying she would send their limousine?”
Tom snorted. “Wait till you see it!”
“Why, she meant their hay-wagon! We always use the Gordon hay-wagon for this midsummer picnic. That’s a custom, too.”
Everybody laughed at the expression on Elliott’s face.
“Not up on the vernacular, Lot?” gibed Stannard.
“When is the picnic to be, Mother?” asked Laura.
“How about to-morrow?”
“Better make it the day after,” Father Bob suggested, and they all fell to discussing whom to ask.