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2 some of Dinah's pie, but I'd like to stay out longer." "So would I," added Flossie. "It's so nice on the lake, and maybe to-morrow it will rain." "Well, what if it does?" asked Nan. "You didn't expect to come out on the lake again to- morrow, did you?" "Maybe," answered Flossie, as she smoothed out the dress of a doll she was holding in her lap. "I'd like to come out on the lake and have a picnic every day," said Freddie, leaning over the edge of the boat to see if a small ship, to which he had fastened a string, was being pulled safely along. "Don't do that!" cried Nan quickly. "Do you want to fall in?" "No," answered Freddie slowly, as though he had been thinking that perhaps a wetting in the lake might not be so bad after all. "No, I don't want to fall in now, 'cause whenever I go in swimming I get terrible hungry, and I don't want to be any hungrier than I am now." "Oh, so that's the only reason, is it?" asked Bert with a laugh. "Well, just keep inside the