So many mistakes were made. The things that
were to go in the wagon were put in the carryall, and the things in
the carryall had to be taken out for the wagon!
Elizabeth Eliza forgot her water-proof, and had to go back for her
veil, and Mr.
Peterkin came near forgetting his umbrella.
Mrs. Peterkin sat on the piazza and tried to think. She felt as if she
must have forgotten something; she knew she must. Why could
not she think of it now, before it was too late? It seems hard any
day to think what to have for dinner, but how much easier now it
would be to stay at home quietly and order the dinner,and there
was the butcher's cart! But now they must think of everything.
At last she was put into the carryall, and Mr. Peterkin in front to
drive.
Twice they started, and twice they found something was left
behind,the loaf of fresh brown bread on the back piazza, and a
basket of sandwiches on the front porch. And just as the wagon
was leaving, the little boys shrieked, "The basket of things was
left behind!"
Everybody got out of the wagon. Agamemnon went back into the
house, to see if anything else were left. He looked into the closets;
he shut the front door, and was so busy that he forgot to get into
the wagon himself. It started off and went down the street without
him!
He was wondering what he should do if he were left behind (why
had they not thought to arrange a telegraph wire to the back wheel
of the wagon, so that he might have sent a message in such a
case!), when the Bromwicks drove out of their yard in their buggy,
and took him in.
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