THE NORTH RIDING PROJECT

Suddenly we came upon the signs of a school treat; there had evidently been a plentiful tea, judging by the supply of cake that remained on the table-cloth spread on the grass.  The children had scattered themselves so widely that we thought it would not be easy for the gentle-looking schoolmistress and the teachers to recall them.  One bright-eyed group of girls was swinging on the ash-boughs; others had climbed into the wood and were playing hide-and-seek, their shouts of merry laughter sounded among the trees; baskets full of wild-flowers lay about on the grass, and two gipsy-looking girls were washing their feet in the beck, screened by a projecting tree trunk at the bend of the little stream; they were evidently afraid of being caught.

Macquoid/Yorkshire