VII 
THE KIND HEARTS’ CLUB 
“WHILE you were playing hide-and-seek in the orchard 
this morning, Miss Wilde and I had a long talk about the 
Friday afternoons at school,’’ said Gray Lady, ‘“‘and what 
do you suppose? She has given every other Friday after- 
noon to us, to you and to me, not only that we may all 
learn about birds and animals and how to be kind to them, 
but other things as well.” 
“That will be lovely!” exclaimed Sarah Barnes, but 
suddenly her face clouded and she added; ‘‘that will only 
be twice a month, though, and if, when it comes winter, 
it’s such bad weather that school has to be closed up of a 
Friday, then it would be once a month, and that would be 
very long to wait!” 
“Ah! but you have not heard all of the plan yet,” 
said Gray Lady. “Two Fridays of each month I will 
go to your school, and two Saturday mornings in every 
month you are to come to my house, that is, if you wish to, 
— of course you are not obliged to come. And it will only 
be a very bad snow-storm, deeper than horses’ legs are 
long, that will keep me away from Foxes Corners, for did 
not you and I become friends on a very dreary, rainy 
afternoon ? 
“On the Friday afternoon at school I will either tell or 
read you stories of the birds of the particular season, and 
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