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It was a big, square hall running through from front to back, and the back door was open, and you saw a garden with box hedges, and woods behind it. Stairs went up each side the hall and a balcony ran around the second story, with bedrooms opening off it. There was a high, oval window at the back over the balcony, and the sun poured through.
There were several fine groves of walnut, hickory nut, chestnut and shirly bark nut trees in the woods and I made a sleigh on which I nailed a big box.
"Julia is young, and, like the women of our family, develops in these respects slowly; but, like the rest of us, she will have her own fancies some time, and you know" with a still softer voice "that one of them left a beautiful home, and a circle of love and luxury, to follow her heart into the woods." "Yes, and thank God that she did!
They were obliged to dig through the drift in some places where it was impossible for the horses to pass through. Fortunately the road in the woods was not obliterated. It was already dusk when they saw Ciechanow.
He saw, just in time to avoid running smack into them, that just before they reached the road, although now out of the heavier woods, they had stopped and were talking together more excitedly than ever. Something had happened, Jerry realized at once, but he could not puzzle out what it was, although he looked and listened as intently as they seemed to be doing.
In the middle of the road is a dirt wagon-track, on either side of which is a broad belt of grass, flowers, shrubs and small trees till you come to the fence. Beyond one fence the thick woods has a heavy undergrowth; over the other is a well-wooded pasture.
They have been cached among the woods all day between Poitou and Sainte Marie." "Then we have come through them?" "Yes, we have come through them. They would keep their camp to-day and send out scouts. Brown Moose and his son were among them and struck our trail. To-night " "To-night they will attack Sainte Marie?" "It is possible.
But with great toil they lifted it over the hot ground, and then across another little prairie, until they came to woods only partially burned. There they hung the body to the bough of a tree, out of the reach of beasts of prey. Then they took thought for the future.
But it was only a very short time until all the little creatures of the Big Green Woods knew that Brushtail the Fox was around, and they were afraid to poke their noses out of their homes. Stubby Woodchuck had seen Brushtail three times, and he said Brushtail certainly did look fierce.
"Doesn't sound good to me at all," the boy said with a laugh, as the little steamer turned into the 'hole. "I'm satisfied to eat oysters and clams raw, but not much else." The rest of the month passed all too rapidly for Colin, who was becoming greatly attached to Woods Hole.
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