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. 

Based on the article and the following list of answers, write a list of questions.

1. six
2. Fern Mullins
3. no
4. he had to make a call
5. in the afternoon
6. Carol
7. unknown
8. fall
9. Saturday
10. school is starting
11. to the lake
12. no
13. Mrs. Dyer
14. yes
15. at the store
16. country
17. no
18. poison ivy
19. no
20. Erik
1. How many people were at the picnic?
2. Whose idea was it?
3. Did the doctor attend?
4. Why not?
5. When?
6. Who informed Fern of this?
7. Why did Fern want to go on a picnic?
8. What time of year is it?
9. What day of the week?
10. Is anything happening next week?
11. Where does Fern want to go?
12. Is her friend Cy a shy person?
13. Who would chaperon?
14. Does Dave have a commitment somewhere?
15. Where?
16. Would Erik be described as more of a city boy or country boy?
17. Did they go to Lake Michigan?
18. What were the boys afraid of while taking of their clothes?
19. Were the girls changing in the bushes?
20. Who was doing a vaudeville act?