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too; and beyond the wall on one side was an
orchard, the trees growing among large rocks,
which were scatzered about the ground. On the
other side were broad, level fields, which looked .
pretty smooth, though Lucy could not see them
very well. Her father said that he thought that
must be the General’s mowing.

As they drove along, they could see that they
were passing different fields, having corn and
grain growing in them. ‘These fields appeared to
be quite large, and the walls seemed to grow bet-
ter and more substantial the farther they ad-
vanced. lLwucy’s father said he had no idea that
there could have been such a place for a farm
among those mountains. Lucy, however, said
that she did not see any farm, nothing but songe
fields. .

They soon began to draw near the hous&
They did not see the buildings until they came
very near them; for there were forests and lofty
mountains behind them, which looked dark, and so
the barns, and sheds, and granaries were concealed.
The house, too, did not show itself until they
got almost to it. Lucy saw it first by means of a
tight from one of the windows. She did not see
the light very plainly at first, because it shone _
through some trees which were in the way; but