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asked Maggie ; adding , `` we want you so very much . '' `` Oh , yes , if papa will let me , and I think he will , for he allows me to run about here all day , which I should think was pretty much the same thing , only there will be more fun and frolic with so many of us together , and the berries to pick , too ; oh , I should like to go very much indeed ! '' Hetty and Maggie had seated themselves on the grass , and now the whole plan was eagerly discussed . The children were all to meet at the school-house at nine o'clock , and proceed in a body to the field , taking their dinners along so as to be able to stay all day if they chose . The more the plan was discussed , the more attractive it seemed to our little friends , and the stronger grew their desire to be permitted to go . `` I wish I knew for certain that mamma would say yes , '' said Sophy . `` Suppose we go up to the house now and ask . ''