Picking sweet red berries;

The girls were 'neath the fruit-trees,

Shaking down the cherries.


VACATION TRIALS.

JOHNIE'S STORY.

I wanted to be good. I wanted to have lots of fun.

When I got up in the morning I said, "Here's another long day, and no school." I did n't have to hurry up. Mamma let me take as long as I liked to eat my breakfast.