CHAPTER XXX 

FERN Mullins rushed into the house on a Saturday morning early in September and shrieked at Carol, "School starts next Tuesday. I've got to have one more spree before I'm arrested. Let's get up a picnic down the lake for this afternoon. Won't you come, Mrs. Kennicott, and the doctor? Cy Bogart wants to go--he's a brat but he's lively." 

"I don't think the doctor can go," sedately. "He said something about having to make a country call this afternoon. But I'd love to." 

"That's dandy! Who can we get?" 

"Mrs. Dyer might be chaperon. She's been so nice. And maybe Dave, if he could get away from the store." 

"How about Erik Valborg? I think he's got lots more style than these town boys. You like him all right, don't you?" 

So the picnic of Carol, Fern, Erik, Cy Bogart, and the Dyers was not only moral but inevitable. 

They drove to the birch grove on the south shore of Lake Minniemashie. Dave Dyer was his most clownish self. He yelped, jigged, wore Carol's hat, dropped an ant down Fern's back, and when they went swimming (the women modestly changing in the car with the side curtains up, the men undressing behind the bushes, constantly repeating, "Gee, hope we don't run into poison ivy"), Dave splashed water on them and dived to clutch his wife's ankle. He infected the others. Erik gave an imitation of the Greek dancers he had seen in vaudeville, and when they sat down to picnic supper spread on a lap-robe on the grass, Cy climbed a tree to throw acorns at them.  QUESTIONS:

Q1:
1. Which lake did the people go to?
2. The people visited which lake?
3. What was the name of the lake that they went to?
Q2:
1. Who rushed into the house?
2. Who arrived at the house?
3. Who ran into the house hurriedly?
Q3:
1. Why did Fern Mullins want to go on a final spree?
2. What was the reason behind Fern Mullins wanting to go on a final spree?
3. Why did Fern Mullins say he wnated to go on a final spree?
Q4:
1. Who joined Fern Mullins on his spree and acted like a clown?
2. Who was acting like a clown when they ended up going with Fern Mullins on his spree?
3. Who was being clownish when they joined Fern Mullins on his final spree?
Q5:
1. Did Dave Dyer wear something that belonged to someone else?
2. Was Dave Dyer wearing something of someone else's?
3. Did Dave Dyer take something from someone else and wore it?
Q6:
1. Who did Dave Dyer throw an insect on?
2. Who did Dave Dyer drop on insect on?
3. Whose back did Dave Dyer drop a insect on?
Q7:
1. What plant did Fern Mullins and friends not want to encounter?
2. What plant were Fern Mullins and his friends wishing to avoid?
3. During their trip, Fern Mullins and friends were hoping to not run into what plant?
Q8:
1. Did anyone among Fern Mullins and his friends throw an acorn?
2. On their trip to the lake, was anyone among Fern Mullins and his friends throwing acorns?
3. Did someone among Fern Mullins and his friends throw an acorn at people during the trip to the lake?
