..1 hr. and 1/2.
(Do not get anything muddy)
Tea party...2 hrs.
(Do not break anything)
Skipping...1/2 hr.
Rebecca Mary had written 1 hr. at first opposite skipping, but it
had rather appalled her to think of skipping for so long a period
of time, and, with a sense of being already out of breath, she
had hurriedly erased the 1 and substituted 1/2. Underneath she had
written, ("Do not tip over anything"). All the items had
cautionary parentheses underneath them, for Rebecca Mary did not
wish the celebration to injure "anything." Not this last day,
when all the days of all the years before it, that had gone to
make up her little girlhood, nothing had been torn or muddied or
tipped over.
Rebecca Mary had never climbed trees, had never made mud pies,
never had tea parties, nor skipped. It was with rather a
hesitating step that she went forward to meet them all. She was
even a little awed. But she went. No item on her programme was
omitted.
From her rocker on the porch Aunt Olivia watched proceedings with
quiet patience. It was a good vantage point--she could see nearly
all of the celebration. The tree Rebecca Mary climbed was on the
edge of the old orchard next to Aunt Olivia, and there was a
providential little rift through the shrubbery and vines that
intervened.
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