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"The next day proved as perfect a hay-day as could be desired. Abner,
Mr. Burns and Sam had an early breakfast, and were off before six
o'clock, with their scythes and rakes in the Burns's single wagon,
leaving Dave to follow with a two-seated one, bringing the ladies
and dinner pails. The boarders from Sam's house proved to be a Mrs.
Symonds, a gayly dressed and lively young woman, and her little boy
Ambrose, a quiet child eight or nine years old.
"'You're sure you'll not be lonely, mamma?' whispered Nelly, giving her
mother a parting hug.
"'Not a bit lonely, dear; I'm going to write a long letter to cousin
Miranda, and take it to the office myself, for I slept better than
usual after my walk yesterday.'
"This sent Nelly off with a happy face; Wealthy pushed in the last
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'Peach who had been a colt at the time of the great impeachment trial
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"Their way lay first through the village, which Dave, half-proud and
half-ashamed of his load of ladies, was rather glad to leave behind.
Then came a cool, shady mile in the woods, the road slowly ascending
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"'I don't believe there's a handsomer maple-orchard in the State,' said
Dave. 'You jest oughter be here in sap-time, Nelly! You could ride up
here on the sled an' help me an' Sam empty the buckets, an' there'll be
a big fire under the kettle in the sap-house over there'--pointing to a
rough shed with a chimney, near the roadside; 'an' you could drink all
the sap, an' eat all the sugar you wanted.'
"'Why! Is it here that maple-sugar comes from?' exclaimed Mrs. Symonds,
who did not know much about the country; and Dave willingly pointed out
the half-healed holes in the bark of the trees they were passing, and
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had his ears frozen, from staying too long in the woods.
"'But you told me that Sam's sister used to help,' said Nelly
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the reins to Miss Gage; 'and you said you wished I could be here.'
"'Well, an' so I do, an' so Susy did,' retorted the boy; 'but _she_ has
sense enough to dress up for cold weather, an' so would you have, but
that woman hain't. Look at her now! What sort of shoes are them for
goin' up a mounting? an' where'll all them ruffles be, by night?'
"It was too true that Mrs. Symonds' flounced and lace-edged muslin was
most unfit for the excursion, and her French shoes ill-adapted for
walking, but Nelly did not think it polite to criticise her to Dave, so
she was glad to change the subject.
"'O, there is some Indian pipe!' she exclaimed, darting out of the road
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the foot of a giant hemlock. She ran to the wagon to show them to Miss
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"'O how exquisite!' cried the latter lady, 'how exactly like wax! Do
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"But when Nelly did so, and she had put it to her nose, she exclaimed
in great disgust, and said she didn't believe it was a flower at all,
only a horrid toad-stool, and it had spoiled her gloves; she threw it
indignantly into the dusty road."
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