![]() I’ll just git a handy dory, an’ Johnny Bowden an’ me, we ’ll man her ourselves. “ Oh, my sakes ! now you let me do things my way,” said Mrs. ![]() “ Speak to Captain Bean and the Bowden boy, if you see anybody going by toward the landing,” said I. The wind ’s light northeast, - ’t will take us right straight out an’ this time o’ year it’s liable to change round southwest an’ fetch us home pretty, ’long late in the afternoon. ![]() “No, I don’t want to go nowhere by land.” she answered gayly, - “no, not by land but I don’t know ’s we shall have a better day all the rest of the summer to go out to Green Island an’ see mother. Todd ? “ For I supposed that she was tempted by the fine weather to take one of her favorite expeditions along the shore pastures to gather herbs and simples, and would like to have me keep the house. “ Why, what’s going to be the matter with you, Mrs. “ I expect you ’re goin’ up to your schoolhouse to pass all this pleasant day yes, I expect you ’re goin’ to be dreadful busy,” she said despairingly. In a few minutes she responded to a morning voice from behind the blinds. ![]() ![]() By the unusual loudness of her remarks to a passer-by, and the notes of a familiar hymn which she sang as she worked among the herbs, and which came as if directed purposely to the sleepy ears of my consciousness, I knew that she wished I would wake up and come and speak to her. ![]()
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