The Bodleys telling stories . CHAPTER X. GOING TO THE CAPE. When it came near to the Fourth of July, Mr. Bodley began totalk aliout taking his family to the Cape, where Mrs. Bodleys fatherlived. In the days of this story, there was no railway running to thelittle sea-side village of Hyannis Port, where Grandfather Scupperonce lived, and one must either go down by sloop to Barnstable andcross the Cape, or take the stage-coach. But as the Bodleys w^ereenough to fill a carriage themselves, when they went to the Cape,they usually drove down in a carryall. They had not been for twoyears, and this s
The Bodleys telling stories . CHAPTER X. GOING TO THE CAPE. When it came near to the Fourth of July, Mr. Bodley began totalk aliout taking his family to the Cape, where Mrs. Bodleys fatherlived. In the days of this story, there was no railway running to thelittle sea-side village of Hyannis Port, where Grandfather Scupperonce lived, and one must either go down by sloop to Barnstable andcross the Cape, or take the stage-coach. But as the Bodleys w^ereenough to fill a carriage themselves, when they went to the Cape,they usually drove down in a carryall. They had not been for twoyears, and this summer it had been promised them that they shouldgo. They were even to leave school a day earlier, so as to get away 144 77//; i;r>i>:ys sloniiis. before Fourtli oC July should he upon llicni. ^\y. PxxlUV wrote anote Ibr Nathan to take to the teaeher. askinir that he and Phi]»|)yand Lucv niiuht he excused because tliev were to go to the ?- Leyden Street, Plymouth. •• But she will think it is Cape Ann,- said Nathan. • T think y(niought to explain that it is Cape Cod. Mr. BodUV thought shewould imderstand. •• Cape Cod is the Cape, said he, but Nathan persisted in explaining when he carriiMl the note. We are going to llyannis Port, said he. GOING TO THE CAPE. 145 Oh, I know, said she ; that is where the pink pond-HUes are. But its on Cape Cod, said Nathan. I never saw any pinkUlies there. • Well, you ask your mother if she does not know the pond wherethe pink pond-lilies grow. I think she does. Nathan was afraidthat the teacher had made a mistake, but he did not fail to ask hismother, who assured him that there was such a pond not far fromhis grandfjithers. The whole family set off in the carryall for their grandfathers,Martin driving them. Martin and Mr. Bodley sat in the front seat,and Mrs. Bodley behind, while the children changed their places sooften, that it is not easy to say just where they sat. They
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