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taking their places as before, the happy party
returned to the farm.

There were still two hours before the time
fixed for Katie and Harry to return to their
home, but there was plenty for them to do in
that time. There were the ponies to visit, and
the cows and pigs, and a favourite old owl of
Tom’s, which sat up on a rafter in the barn and
blinked his eyes at the children. And while
Tom and Harry were amusing themselves about
the farmyard, the little girls went up to the
nursery to see Fanny’s dolls and their house,
and all the other toys which were to be found
in that delightful room.

But the happiest day must have an ending
and all too soon the carriage was at the door
Harry and Katie bid good-bye to their kind
aunt and uncle and cousins, and were put into
the carriage.

' “Take care of the invalid, Katie,” were her
uncle’s last words to her as Nichols drove off.