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Mr. Keep’s composure. The children come home.

trouble,” said Mrs. Keep. “ Would it not be best to send
for them ?”

“T don’t know where we could send,” said Mr. Keep.
“ We can’t tell where they have gone. If you think it best,
however, I will go and see if I can find anything of them.
But I presume that they have run in somewhere out of
the rain, and will come home by-and-by, safe enough,
only they will, undoubtedly, be muddy and wet from
head. to foot.”

Mrs. Keep was satisfied that it would do no good to
send for the children, but she felt quite uneasy neverthe-
less, and went continually to the door, to see if they were
coming. She was at last greatly relieved, at seeing Ro-
dolphus drive up with them in the wagon, and at finding
that they were as dry and as clean as if there had been
no shower at all.