New England bygones . )asturt!-bars and lean her old head . .0\ / \,w,U w^ HlV 111 ^P^tZ-^rf. upon the upper rail, giving ns children a sort of blear-eyedrecognition which was quite touching. To see this head bobbingup and down amongst the lar-off alder-bushes was as patheticto our child-hearts as if the poor creature could have talked andreasoned with us. We were glad when she gave up the ghost THE VISIT. 101 in a natural way, for my grandfather could not consent to haveher killed. Benny and I did not after all make a very mean appearanceon our first visit alone to our grandfathers farm. We w
New England bygones . )asturt!-bars and lean her old head . .0\ / \,w,U w^ HlV 111 ^P^tZ-^rf. upon the upper rail, giving ns children a sort of blear-eyedrecognition which was quite touching. To see this head bobbingup and down amongst the lar-off alder-bushes was as patheticto our child-hearts as if the poor creature could have talked andreasoned with us. We were glad when she gave up the ghost THE VISIT. 101 in a natural way, for my grandfather could not consent to haveher killed. Benny and I did not after all make a very mean appearanceon our first visit alone to our grandfathers farm. We wereonly two untaught children going to a haying. Our equipageand our dress were suited to our calling. AVe were Ijent on akindlv errjuid,—we were to carry youth and cheerfulness, andso jov, into the great lonely house of an old man. Being imagi-native children, and having little book learning, that which wedesired to believe, and which fact failed to give us, we coinedout of our own brains. The seven-mile sandy plain, with itspines arid dwarf-oaks, we declared to be no less than forty m
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