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Updated: May 27, 2025

Still she insisted on staying, and each hour when the watchman would call from the pond bank, just like they used to do in old war-times: "Two o'clock-and all is well!" Mrs. Burns would look up and say, "Dear Lord, I thank Thee!" Peter, of course, was out with the men. He could not move his barns and chicken house, but he had taken his cow and horse to places of safety.

Laura Lee Hope - The Bobbsey Twins in the Country