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`` I 'll bet you a trolley-ride to any place you choose that you 'll be taken for one before you leave Harding . '' Sure enough Betty , hurrying across the campus a moment later to intercept the man who had promised to crate her desk and then never come for it , was stopped by a timid little sub-freshman with her hair in a braid , who inquired if she was going to take the `` major French '' examination , and did she know whether it came at eleven or twelve o'clock ? `` So we 're all got to go off on a trolley-ride , '' shouted Bob jubilantly , and though Betty protested and called Helen to witness that she had n't promised Bob any trolley-ride whatever , everybody agreed that they ought to have one last picnic somewhere before they separated . So they all hurried home to do what Katherine called `` tall strides of work , '' and at four o'clock they were waiting , with tempting-looking bags and bundles tucked under their arms , for a car . `` We 'll take the first one that comes , '' Bob decided , `` and go until we see a nice picnic-y place . '' Generally no one place would have pleased everybody , but to-day no one said a word against Bob 's first choice , -- a steep , breezy hillside , with a great thicket of mountain laurel in full bloom near the summit and a flat rock , shaded by a giant elm-tree , for a table . -LSB- Illustration : `` LADIES , BEHOLD THE PRECEPTRESS OF THE KANKAKEE ACADEMY '' -RSB- It was such a comical supper , for each girl had obeyed Bob 's haphazard instructions to bring what she liked best .