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She sat beside Mrs.
Minturn, waiting until she awakened.
"Why I must have fallen asleep!" she cried.
"For a minute," said Leslie.
"But I feel as if I had rested soundly a whole night," said Mrs. Minturn.
"I'm so refreshed. And there goes that bird again. Verdi to take his
notes! Who ever would have thought of it? Leslie, did you bring any lunch?
I'm famished."
"We must go back to the car," said Leslie.
They spread the waterproof sheet on the ground where it would be bordered
with daintily traced partridge berry, and white-lined plantain leaves, and
sitting on it ate their lunch. Leslie did what she could to interest Mrs.
Minturn and cheer her, but at last that lady said: "Thank you dear, you
are very good to me; but you can't entertain me to-day. Some other time
we'll come back and bring the scores you suggest, and see what we can
really hear from these birds. But to-day, I've got the battle of my life
to fight. Something is coming; I should be in a measure prepared, and as I
don't know what to expect, it takes all the brains I have to figure things
out.


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