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"We'll leave Deepdale early in the morning," she said, "and go on to Rockford. There we're due to stop with my aunt. We can take lunch wherever we find it most convenient, but we'll make Rockford at dusk, I hope." "I certainly trust so," said Mollie. "A night on a country road never, my dear!" "The next night we'll stop in Middleville," went on Betty, "at Amy's cousin's house.
"'Would you object, he asked the lawyer, 'to taking a case against personal friends of yours, the owners of the Rockford bank building? "'Not at all and if you're right, I'll lick 'em! What's your case? "Rob told him the whole story.
A time-worn sign-post bore letters that could scarcely be made out, and, though they had a road map, the girls were not quite sure which way to take to get to Rockford. They were debating the matter, alternately consulting the map and the sign-post, when a farmer drove past. "Which road to Rockford, please?" hailed Betty. "Th' left!" he exclaimed, sententiously. "G'lang there!"
As my three older sisters had already attended the seminary at Rockford, of which my father was trustee, without any question I entered there at seventeen, with such meager preparation in Latin and algebra as the village school had afforded.
They had assembled at Betty's house for the start, and were about ready to leave, though there seemed to be much confusion at the last minute. Their first stopping place, at least for the night, would be the town of Rockford, about sixteen miles away, where Betty's aunt lived.
At Rockford College, illustrating this conflict, there exists, besides the course in Secretarial Studies, an equivalent course in Home Economics. In one photograph in this article we show the tiny children of the Francis Parker School in Chicago taking their first lesson in the technique of the home.
"I live just down the road a piece, and it's only a mile to Bakersville. That's a good town. They got a movin' picture show there. I went onct!" "Did you indeed?" said Betty. "But we can't go there. Isn't there some way of getting to Rockford without going all the way back to the fork? Why, it's miles and miles!"
She did at first entertain the idea of parting with it, thinking how far the money it would bring would go in defraying the expenses attendant upon Emma's education, but upon second consideration, she resolved that they would not part with her father's parting-gift to her, unless compelled to do so by actual want; and so when their old home was broken up the piano was carefully packed and forwarded to Rockford.
They wished no trouble with the United States. Wabokieshiek had lied. So Black-hawk decided to give his guests a dog-feast, and then return home. He was an old man of sixty-five, and he was too weak to fight alone. He was getting tired. He had made camp one hundred miles up the Rock River, near Kishwaukee, a few miles below present Rockford, Illinois.
About the time of her marriage and removal to W. her parents, with her sister, removed to one of the Western States: and it may be the knowledge that she must rely solely upon herself enabled her to meet her trials with more fortitude than might have been expected. Some fifty miles from W. was the large and thriving village of Rockford, and thither Mrs. Ashton at length decided to remove.
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