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frorn the heat. He looked up to Lucy, and smiled;
and Lucy was surprised to observe how distinctly
she could see the expression of his countenance
and the movement of his eyes, so bright was the
illumination. Eben stood on one side banging
the fire with repeated strokes of his long pole, to
make the sparks fly.

““What’s that great thing over beyond the
brook, mother?” said Lucy.

Lucy pointed to something at some distance
across the brook, and beyond some large, scattered
trees.

“TJ don’t know,” said her mother; “it looks
like a great heap of logs and stumps. Let us go
and ask Robert.”

Robert told them that it was his father’s great
heap of logs and stumps, that he had got out of
a swamp.

“ Let’s go and set it on fire,” said Lucy.

“Will it do to set it on fire?” asked her
mother, speaking to Robert.

“Tt won’t burn,” said Robert; “it has not been
piled up long enough.”

“O, we can make it burn,” said Lucy.

* Well,” said: Robert, “we can try.”

“Are you sure your father will be willing to
have you set it on fire?” said Lucy’s mother