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 45
kly leave the villagebehind us and penetrate into the outlying country, stoppingnow and then to secure a branch of the downy pussy-willowor brilliant red blossoms of the maple, and again to admire adistant view where the trees seem enveloped in a hazy mist ofdelicate color; on we go, exploring… … l.« The Walking Club, 29 our merry little chaperon, may go, with impunity, where itwould not be so pleasant for one to venture alone. Once a week all through that delightful spring the club mighthave been seen, now upon a road leading in this direction, nowin that. And, often as we stepped aside to…