. Two girls on a barge. g cases, one ateither end of the long deep barge. We admiredthem enormously, and I think the Cadet did too,though he spoke of them with a fine roofs however seemed to us to be impres-sionistic rather, if a series of skeleton trianglescan be called a roof at all. Add to this that thebarge was full of shavings and the old carpenterwas putting up a door, and the effect remains, un-finished you will find. We stood in the middle ofthe boat surveying it, while our packages werestrewed over the wharf in brown hillocks of abursting bulkiness of outline. Exquis
. Two girls on a barge. g cases, one ateither end of the long deep barge. We admiredthem enormously, and I think the Cadet did too,though he spoke of them with a fine roofs however seemed to us to be impres-sionistic rather, if a series of skeleton trianglescan be called a roof at all. Add to this that thebarge was full of shavings and the old carpenterwas putting up a door, and the effect remains, un-finished you will find. We stood in the middle ofthe boat surveying it, while our packages werestrewed over the wharf in brown hillocks of abursting bulkiness of outline. Exquisite and most administrative one ! said Ito Mr. Grove ; it is charming, as you know ; but hasit ever occurred to you that we have come to start ? * Impressionistic Queryist ! he respondedreadily, when and whether we can start at all TWO GIRLS ON A BARGE 13 to-clay entirely depends on Miss Devizes influencewith the carpenter. But, see, here is our ownBargee, doing tight-rope gymnasium apparently,and longing to salute MKS. BAKGEE At this moment of a first impression our ownBargee was perilously balanced on the narrowgangway running overhead, whence he shone downat us with a rubicund respect that might have 14 TWO GIRLS ON A BARGE warmed a snowstorm. Our introduction to himwas of necessity ephemeral, the impression stillremains—gold nuggets do not tarnish in threeweeks. And then Mrs. Bargee came to welcomeus, beaming in her snowy sunbonnet from the opendoor of the little yellow cabin where she , in turn, indicated Eccles to us, a small vagrantfactor of the trip at present indeterminate, playinghide-and-seek among our packages with the otherchildren of Moores Wharf. Edna had just begun to tidy up and wasmaking hay among the shavings with a walkingstick, luxuriously, while the Cadet was disentanglingthe table legs of their swathing of brown paper,when a sudden voice electrified us all. Well, young ladies ! I have heard of was Ednas uncle, General Essington. Bu
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