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when they reached home, and you may believe
that, after such a morning’s work, they were quite
ready to eat it.

The next day the children expected to be
again summoned to the wood, when they saw Mr.
Lovett put on his working jackct, but he smilingly
bade them amuse themselves at home, adding that
he should not go further than Mr. Nye’s saw mill
himself. For a week after this he continued to
go out without them, seemingly spending all his
time at the saw mill. One evening he came in so
late that they had taken their tea without him.
When the children came to bid him good night,
he said, ‘‘I have something very pretty to show
io those who can get up early enough to take a
walk to-morrow before breakfast.’ ‘I will!”
and ‘I will!’ sounded joyously in the voice of
each of the party as they withdrew.

And they kept their words, standing in the
yard all ready for their walk, when the only signs
of the sun were the crimson and gold with which
a few light clouds, lying on the eastern sky, were
tinted by his approaching beams. Mr. Lovett

soon joined the children, and, after ascertaining