148 LUCY AMONG THE MOUNTAINS.

in fact, that, at breakfast, the General proposed
that Lucy’s mother should go and take a ride,
and see the country around them.

* You and Lucy might take the wagon and
Hero,” said he, “and have a good ride before
dinner.”

“Yes,” said Comfort; “they might go up
through the Gap, and so round by Emery’s Pond.”

“OQ, I wouldn’t go there,” said the General’s
wife. “It’s all rocks and mountains on that road.
I think she had better go down to the comer, and
out on the Greenville road. There are’ beautiful
farms that way.”

“Well, mother,” said Lucy, “let’s go.”

“ } don’t know as I should be able to manage
Hero,” said her mother. “I’m not much ac-
customed to driving.”

‘No difficulty about that,” said the General.
“Hero is a good traveller, but you can manage
him as easily as you could a dog, with reins or
without reins. Or you may take Robert; he'll
drive you,” continued the General, after a mo-
ment’s pause. “ Robert, couldn’t you rig up a
seat for yourself in the forward part of the
wagon ?”

Robert said he could, without any difficulty ;