New England -- Description and travel -- Juvenile fiction
"When I get back home," said Mary Jane as she snuggled down in her front
seat again, "I’m going to read all about Concord and all about
everything—if you’ll read it to me, Mother, I am." Mrs. Merrill
promised, so Mary Jane tried to look very hard at everything they saw so
she could remember it a long, long time.
"Now then," said Mrs. Merrill briskly, as they got out of the auto at
Copley Square, "we’ll just have time to hurry up and pack our things and
get our lunch before the train leaves. And we won’t have a bit of time
to spare, so it’s a mighty good thing we haven’t left anything else to
do. That Wolverine leaves on time whether we are on it or not."
"Won’t we have time but just only to pack and to get lunch?" asked Mary
Jane disappointedly.
"Why Mary Jane!" exclaimed Mrs. Merrill, "haven’t you seen enough of
Boston?"
"Oh, yes," replied Mary Jane, "I’ve seen enough but I haven’t done
enough."
"What more is there to do, child?" asked Mrs. Merrill. "Seems to me
you’ve done about everything a person could think of already."
"Yes, I guess I have," admitted Mary Jane, "but I wanted to do some of
it over again. I wanted to take another ride in my swan boat, I did."
"My dear child!" exclaimed Mrs. Merrill sympathetically, "and you shall
if I can get you down there. Hurry now and we’ll get our packing done
in a jiffy and then before we eat we’ll go to the Commons and let you
take a ride."
Up in their room Mary Jane helped all she could with the packing. She
stuffed the tips of all the shoes, she folded hair ribbons that had been
mussed and put clothes in neat piles on the bed. Alice took everything
from the drawers, picked up personal belongings from the bathroom, and
brought the clothes that had been hanging in the closet. With such good
help Mrs. Merrill packed in a very short time, and sooner than she had
supposed possible the trunk was ready to go, and they were dressed in
traveling frocks ready for the journey home.
"Now a wire to Dad," she said as she took a careful look over the room
to be certain that they were leaving nothing behind, "and I believe we
are ready to go."
"Let’s not stop for a big lunch," suggested Alice, "because we can have
early dinner on the diner. Let’s get sandwiches and milk some place and
then let Mary Jane have two rides on the swan boats."
Mrs. Merrill telephoned Hal and he promised to call for their bags at
the hotel and then to come for them at the entrance of the Commons
nearest the lagoon.
A very happy little girl bought tickets for six rides and, with Alice
and her mother, Mary Jane took two last blissful rides on her favorite
boat.
"When I grow up to be a big lady and have a little girl of my own," she
observed between rides, "I’m going to bring her to Boston and let her
ride ’n ride ’n ride."
"Seems to me that’s about what I am doing with my little girl," laughed
Mrs. Merrill. "I believe you like the swan boats better than anything
you have seen or done on the trip."
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