XV 

 THE PINK FAMILY OUTDOORS 



(Barbara Campbell to Mary Penrose) 

 Oaklands, September i. So you have been away 

 and in going discovered the possibilities of growing 

 certain pinks and carnations out-of-doors that, in 

 America at least, are usually considered the winter 

 specialties of a cool greenhouse! 



We too have been afield somewhat, having but 

 now returned from a driving trip of ten days, nicely 

 timed as to gardens and resting-places until the last 

 night, when, making a false turn, ten o'clock found 

 us we did not know where and with no prospect of 

 getting our bearings. 



We had ample provisions for supper with us, includ- 

 ing two bottles of ginger ale ; no one knew that we were 

 lost but ourselves and no one was expecting us any- 

 where, as we travel quite con amore on these little 

 near-by journeys of ours. The August moon was big 

 and hot and late in rising ; there was a rick of old hay 

 in a clean-looking field by the roadside that had 

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