This conversation occurred on the Wednesday of that week.
And the picnic excursion—that most disastrous picnic excursion—was fixed for the following Saturday.
CHAPTER IX.
AN UNEXPECTED GUEST AT A PICNIC.
Outlaw and free thief,
Landless and lawless,
Through the world fare I,
Thoughtless of life.
Outlaw and free thief,
My kinsmen have left me,
And no kinsmen need I