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Updated: July 1, 2025
"Somebody ought to be on board of her," said Fuz, in as anxious a tone as he could assume, "with so many strange people around." "It isn't safe," added Joe. "Fact," replied Dab; "but then, I kind o' like to feel a little unsafe."
She got into her sleigh which is made of a dove-feather, curling up in front, and which is drawn by twelve lady birds: the lady birds all had on robes of caterpillar fuz to keep them warm. The retinue of eleven Faeries were all riding on milk-white steeds of dandelion-down. The Queen held the reins herself, and cracking the whip which is made of a musquito leg, away they went over the moon-beam.
Ford and Frank were facing Dabney and Dick on the right; and the two Hart boys were facing each other on the left, each with a whole seat to himself. Almost the first thing Joe did, after taking possession, was to lean over, and whisper, "Look out, Fuz, keep your secret." "Catch me spoiling a good joke."
"I'm not so sure it will be necessary, after all," said their father, who seemed to have dismissed Annie's grievance from his mind for the present. "Your cousin Ford is sure to go; and I'm almost certain of another boy, besides the missionary's son. If she gets a few others herself, her house'll be full enough, and you can board somewhere else." "Hurrah for that!" shouted Fuz.
"Guess we haven't forgotten 'em all in one week," said Ford. "I was thinking about to-morrow." So were they all; and they held a council-of-war about it, in their own room, before supper. The result was, that, by a unanimous vote, that Saturday was to be devoted to the catching of fish, rather than to playing ball, or any thing else that would bring them into immediate contact with Joe and Fuz.
They all followed him, but they could see that there was something more hidden under the mirth of Joe and Fuz as they walked away; and they were hardly out of hearing before Dab Kinzer remarked, "Look a' here, boys, I move we don't give those two any fun at our expense." "How?" asked Ford. "If there's any thing at Mrs. Myers's that we don't like, we mustn't let them know it."
Hart, giving a full account of what had happened, and saying she meant to keep Frank as Ford's guest for a while. The Hart boys hardly knew whether to submit or not, when that letter came, as they had planned for themselves all sorts of rare fun with "the young missionary" in their own home. "Never mind, Fuz," said Joe, "we'll serve him out when we get to Grantley."
"You Cornish people are so suppositios; and it is dreadfully ignorant to be so. Mother said so." Dan fairly shrieked with delight; he always did when Anna or Betty used a wrong word, particularly if it was a long one. "Though it is so early, I am going to light the fire now," said Kitty, anxious to make a diversion and prevent squabbles, "because I want to smell the smell of the burning fuz."
That was where his unwisdom showed itself; for among the boys who were not playing were Joe and Fuz Hart and all their "crowd," and this was the first time they had seen Dick on the green "all alone."
There were more wagons to pass, as they plunged forward, and rough places in the road for Dabney to look out for; but even Joe and Fuz were now getting confidence in their driver. Before long, too, the ponies themselves began to feel that they had had enough of it.
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