How to amuse yourself and others : the American girl's handy book (1887)
Beard, Lina, Beard, Adelia B. (Adelia Belle), 1857-1920 · New York : Charles Scribner's Sons · leaf 100
CHAPTER VII. MIDSUMMER EVE. N the minds of most of us, midsummer isassociated with dry, dusty roads,parched vegetation, the shrill cry ofthe locust,* the shriller notes of themosquitoes, and the hum of myriadsof other insects ; but, girls, midsum-mer does not come at this time :astronomy fixes the…
