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Luretta listened eagerly. "I do wish I could have been with you, Danna," she said. But Anna shook her head. "The boat would have sunk," she responded soberly. Mrs. Foster thought the plan for a honey party an excellent idea, and promised to come in good season; and Luretta was greatly pleased to go with her friends to invite the neighbors.
"I am glad they are free," replied Anna. "It would be dreadful to have giants catch us, wouldn't it?" Luretta agreed soberly, thinking that to the rabbits she must have seemed a giant. "Father will say 'twas best to let them go, whatever Paul says," she added, and promising to meet the next day the friends parted.
She did not know what they could say to Luretta to explain their mischief. At that moment London came into the front entry. "I'se seen strange sights this mornin', massa!" he said, rolling his eyes. "I'se seen white witches flyin' out ob dis house." "London! Do not talk of such wickedness," said Mr. Lyon sharply.
"Do you suppose its mother is trying to find it?" she continued thoughtfully. "And would it tell its brothers and sisters all its adventures, just as Mother said?" questioned Luretta. "Why not?" Anna's brown eyes sparkled. "Of course it would. Probably Trot is safe home by this time, and all the rabbit family are looking out for Trit." Anna looked hopefully toward Luretta.
Anna did not speak of the excursion to the forest; she did not even think of it until that evening, when her father came home with a roll of fine birch-bark, soft and smooth as paper, on whose smooth surface she and Rebecca with bits of charcoal could trace crude pictures of trees and Indians, of birds and mice, and sometimes write letters to Lucia Horton or Luretta Foster.
"Luretta hadn't time to say anything," responded Rebecca, "for I had just reached the door when we saw you coming. Now we'll get your shoes and stockings and start home, for Mother is waiting supper for us." "Luretta has my shoes," said Anna, and ran on to the door, where Luretta was still waiting. "Give me my shoes and stockings; quick, Lu!
"Yes, I will," promised Luretta; but she began to wish that she had not suggested such a thing. If Danna was going to be exactly like Melvina Lyon, thought Luretta, a rabbit would not receive much attention. Rebecca was sitting on the front step busy with her knitting as the two little girls came up the path. It was her birthday, but so far no one had seemed to remember it.
Jed did not offer to recover it; he scarcely seemed to know that it was gone. Instead he stood staring at the express driver, while the rain ran down his nose and dripped from its tip to his chin. "She she's goin' back to Luretta Smalley's?" he repeated. "She " He did not finish the sentence. Instead he turned on his heel and walked slowly back to the shop.
"Why, yes, sir; I think that will be a good plan," responded Rebby soberly, "and perhaps Luretta will go with us to ask the neighbors." Mr. Foster nodded again, whistling softly to himself, and as the little girls bade him a polite "Good-morning" and went on toward his house they could hear his whistle ring above the sound of his hammer. Luretta came running to meet them.
And is not Luretta kind to think of it?" Anna agreed rather soberly. Mrs. Foster had told them to remain near the log, she remembered, but if Melvina saw no harm in Luretta's plan she was sure it must be right; so taking Melvina's hand they started off.
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