. Harper's young people . oves her evenmore than he did before she died, as he says, for he isstill firm in the belief that this is his own little sister, andsays, in answer to all doubts, Maybe its a miracle, but, anyhow, its so. IN A Journal. BY DINAH MULOCH CRAIK, AUTHOR OF JOHN HALIFAX, GENTLEMAN. HAD long heard of the house-boat, andhad once seen it (as you see itnow, my readers, in a sketchdone by a girl little older thanmany of you, but already anotable English artist). Itlies, summer after summer,moored in a tiny bay on ourriver Thames, and twice ithad been offered to me
. Harper's young people . oves her evenmore than he did before she died, as he says, for he isstill firm in the belief that this is his own little sister, andsays, in answer to all doubts, Maybe its a miracle, but, anyhow, its so. IN A Journal. BY DINAH MULOCH CRAIK, AUTHOR OF JOHN HALIFAX, GENTLEMAN. HAD long heard of the house-boat, andhad once seen it (as you see itnow, my readers, in a sketchdone by a girl little older thanmany of you, but already anotable English artist). Itlies, summer after summer,moored in a tiny bay on ourriver Thames, and twice ithad been offered to me for aweeks occupation by its kind-ly owner, but I never wasable to go. When at last Ifound I could go I was asready to jump for joy—had that feat been possible atmy age—as any of you young people. To live in a house-boat on the broad river, with a safebarricade of water between you and the outside world, tofish out of your parlor door, and if you wanted to wash yourhands, to let down your jug from your bedroom window;.
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