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asked his mother to let them ride with him,
at least until it was dark. She consented,
and the carryall moved on.

‘Come, Jonas,” said Rollo, “now begin.”

‘Did you ever hear of Cape Cod?” said
Jonas.

“Yes,” said Lucy; “I have seen it on
the map.” :

“Cape Cod on the map is very different
from Cape Cod in reality.”

“How ?” said Rollo.

“Why, Cape Cod in reality is a great tract
of country, with fields, and villages, and
towns, and forests all over the land, and
bays, and harbors, and sandy beaches along
the shore ; but Cape Cod on the map is only
a mark upon a piece of paper, shaped like a
man’s arm.”
au And painted red,”’ said Rollo.

“No, yellow,” said Lucy.

“It is red on my map,” said Rollo, de-
cidedly.

‘Never mind that,” said Jonas. “ At the
head of one of the little bays on Cape Cod, in
a small village, there lived two boys, named
John and Jack. Th ~“ *° OER” egies

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