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After a delightful morning to all parties concerned for we were much amused, the coolies were adequately paid, and the bear wasn't worried we returned to breakfast, and then marched fifteen hot miles into Gunderbal, where we found the Smithsons, with whom we dined.
There is a confused tale prevalent that the bear, taking a mean advantage of my absence, has been down to the village and eaten a few ponies, or frightened them I can't make out which. Easter Day, April 23. We left the Erin district early in the morning following the bara singh fiasco, and punted and poled up the river to join the Smithsons in a last attack upon the duck.
The bewildered look on Dora's face did not disappear as she came to the end of this statement. "What did you want me to read this for?" she asked Agnes. "What did I want you to read it for? Is it possible that you don't see, that you don't understand?" "Understand what? We don't know these Smithsons." "But we do know these Smiths." "Agnes, you don't mean "
Our friends the Smithsons were on the platform waiting to receive us and welcome us as strangers and pilgrims in an unknown land. They have only remained here to meet us, and they proceed to Kashmir to-morrow, sleeping in a carriage in the quiet backwater of a siding, to save themselves the worry of a desperately early start to-morrow morning.
Linda returned the kiss warmly, and both felt that the old-time friendship was theirs again. The little Smithsons all came and they and the little Grants sat down on the long bright dining room to a dinner that made history in their small lives, and was eaten over again in happy dreams for months. How those children did eat!
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