. A family flight around home. hide himselfbehind the sleigh. The door swung to in the wind. As Hubertheard no sound of Alice following, he ventured to peep out of thewindow, and saw her in full career running away from the barntoward the house, where, luckily for him, at that moment, her•mother appeared, calling her. With a sigh of relief, Hubert slid down upon the floor and fin-ished his story ; then went on to consider the rest of the number. 86 A FAMILY FLIGHT AROUND HOME. It was perhaps an hour after that he got up, stretched himself,and thought of looking up Alice, to make peace with her
. A family flight around home. hide himselfbehind the sleigh. The door swung to in the wind. As Hubertheard no sound of Alice following, he ventured to peep out of thewindow, and saw her in full career running away from the barntoward the house, where, luckily for him, at that moment, her•mother appeared, calling her. With a sigh of relief, Hubert slid down upon the floor and fin-ished his story ; then went on to consider the rest of the number. 86 A FAMILY FLIGHT AROUND HOME. It was perhaps an hour after that he got up, stretched himself,and thought of looking up Alice, to make peace with her. Hewent to the door, lifted the latch, and found it would not it did no good, neither did kicking it, though he triedboth, and though it was a loose old door, on rusty hinges; but ofcourse he did not care to break it down. A very slight inspection showed that it was hooked on the out-side. At first he was very angry, suspecting a trick played uponhim by Alice, but when he came to think about it, — and he had. THE FLOOR. plenty of time to think, —he was convinced that the great hook on^the outside had fallen over of itself into its hasp when the doorwas blown to ; and this must have been the case. Hubert resolved to be philosophical, and he returned to hisWide Aivakc. But the number had lost its charm ; interested ashe had been at the first in its contents, he was indifferent tOreading it over so soon a second time. Moreover, he was hungry. So Hubert set about looking for means of deliverance. He tried AN ADVENTURE. 87 the nearest window, the one which looked toward the house. Itstuck fast, and he soon perceived that the sash was kept downby stout nails. After giving the door one more futile shake, hecrossed to the other end of the chamber, and tried the windowthere. That too was fastened, but more loosely, the woodwork of theold window-pane was rotten, and the nail which held it gave way,so that he could pull it out. To his great joy, he pushed up thel
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