CHAPTER XII.
“NOW DON'T FORGET!”
It was well on in June, and Mrs. Ashford was very busy making preparations to go to the country with the children.
Two successive summers they had spent at a very pleasant mountain farmhouse, but the last year they had gone to the seashore. This summer Mrs. Ashford decided for the farmhouse again, to Marty's great delight, for it was a perfect paradise to her.
She herself had many preparations to make—deciding which dolls to take and which to leave at home, and getting them all ready for whatever was to be their fate. It also took a good deal of time to choose from her little library the few books her mamma allowed her to take for rainy days. It was a weighty matter, too, to select a suitable present for Evaline, the little girl at the farmhouse, as her father suggested she should do, and gave her money to buy it.
Then Jennie was very much on her mind.
“What will she do for soup and jelly and things when we are away, mamma?” she asked anxiously.