"I see you're 'game,' as Roger would say, for anything, so we'll go
that way if Mother agrees."
Mrs. Emerson did agree and even went so far as to say that she had
wanted to do that very thing for a long time.
"It's lucky Grandfather insisted that we shouldn't bring anything but
small handbags," said Ethel Brown. "These little things we have won't
be any trouble at all, no matter how many times we have to change."
They started in heavy inter-urban cars which rode as solidly as
railroad cars and enabled them to be but very little tired at the end
of the first "leg" of the journey. The wide windows permitted views of
the country and the girls ran from one side to the other of the closed
cars, so that they should not miss anything of interest, and sat on the
front seat of the open cars into which they changed later, so that they
might have no one in front of them to obstruct their view.
They went out of the city straight westward through Brookline, through
Chestnut Hill, where is one of the reservoirs from which the city is
supplied; past Wellesley, where they saw the college buildings rising
among the trees on the left.
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