146 CAROLINE.

 

Livingston stops to talk with them. Caroline’s threat.

 

where the boys were standing, they found that Mary
BeH and Ellen Linn had stopped to talk with them.
Livingston stopped. too.

Caroline ran on a few steps, and then looking back,
called out to Livingston to come.

“ Come Livingston,” said she, “ come down and get the
chaise ready.”

But Livingston remained still. He and Mary Bell were
trying to contrive some way to help the boys carry some
of their load. The boys were very small, and they looked
pretty tired.

“ Have you got to walk all the way to the village ?” said
Livingston.

“ Yes,” said one of the boys.

“Come, Livingston,” said Caroline, calling to him.
“If you don’t come, I shall go off in Mr. Clarendon’s
carriage.”

Livingston still lingered with the boys, but at length,
after having “changed about,” as they called it, the
baskets and pails which Livingston, Mary Bell, and Ellen
Linn were carrying, so as to get one of Livingston’s
hands free, Livingston took the heaviest of the boys’ pails,
and then they all came on together, following Caroline
down the hill.

Miss Rose had heard Caroline declare that she would
go in the carriage unless Livingston would come on, and
so when Caroline got to the foot of the mountain, she
proposed to Mr. Clarendon to invite her to get in with
them, just to see, as Miss Rose said, what Caroline
would do,

The driver of the carriage reached the place where the
horses had been left, first, and as he immediately har-