“I never found the limit yet on one of those gasmeter attachments, an’ I am the inquisitive soul.  Line out to Claremont or some of those foolish places.  Sure, we’ll start early, about noon, and enjoy the beautiful Spring-air and highballs.  Are you on?  Sure I’ll be there with my hair in a braid.  I am the Rural Kid these days and a stunt like that suits me from the ground up.

“Who is that coming in the door?  Why, its Wilbur!  He sees me!  Do I look all ri’?  Here, Wilbur, here.  Sit down and have a drink, dear, I have been looking for you everywhere.  Forget that deal last night.  So long fellows.  Waiter give me the check; I don’t care what becomes of my money now.”

Sabrina gives an automobile party to several of her friends so that they may enjoy the country air, but after investigating the atmosphere carefully the opinion of the entire party is that the only healthful ozone is that that comes out of a champagne bottle.

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

“Where you all going?” demanded a voice, and looking around we discovered Sabrina, the Show Girl, and two of her girl friends seated in a big red automobile that was drawn up to the curb.  “Come on, jump in,” she continued.  “We are out to commune with nature for a few minutes and you might just as well be a commuter as the rest of us.  Ain’t this the one grand weather?

“No, you sit back here.  We will make Wilbur sit up in front so that we can see he don’t grub the eats.  He’s inside lancing the management for a group of free lunch and a package of liquid refreshments.  Here he comes now.  Bless his young heart he’s got his arms full.  Ain’t it grand to be loved by such a man?

“No, Wilbur, you get up in the hurricane deck and we all will sit in the caboose.  Have we got everything?  Alla, did you forget the hot-water bag full of cracked ice for the champagne?  Now, let’s see where shall we go first to get the most nature?  We can stop at the Cadillac, the Circle, the Casino in the Park and then make a quick jump to Claremont.

“In that way we can get some of the delightful Spring air and not be far from a head waiter at any time.  Thats right, Sadie, you big gump, put your feet on the crackers.  Those were bought to eat and not to be used as a door mat.  Still, if you must wipe your feet we can print ‘Welcome’ on one of the crackers and you can clean your Dorothy Dodds till you are black in the face.

“Is everything ready?  Do I look all right?  Wilbur, give the motorman two bells.  Look out, there!  There goes Er Lawshe with a plaster cast of Genee under his arm.  Do you want to make him drop it and break his heart?

“Sadie, it is not necessary to give the furtive glance to every gentleman who admires the machine.  Go ahead and see if you can’t scrape the paint off the cop.  Alla, my dear, you know it isn’t necessary to start eating now, you’ll get yours, and besides several of the places we will stop at have free lunches, so you can have all that you are accustomed to without making inroads on the provision supply at this stage of the game.