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Updated: July 24, 2025
I might have known you would n't see what fun it is to play Swiss Family Robinson. Now don't you dare tell any one a single word about it. Remember you promised across your heart." "I sha'n't tell," Ruthy answered, "but I do wish you would n't do it, Ruby. Why, I shall be as scared as anything if I wake up in the night and think that you are out there in your house all alone in the pitch dark.
Everybody talked a great deal about everything but Ruby's going away, for nobody wanted to give the little girl time enough to think about it, lest she should grow homesick; and it seemed quite like a party, Ruby thought, as she sat beside her father at the table, with Ruthy sitting by her, all ready for another breakfast, she had risen so early.
"I'll ask mamma," Ruthy answered, and gathering up her paper dolls she ran into the house, coming back in a few minutes with two red-cheeked apples for the little girls to eat on their way, and permission to go as far as the corner with Ruby. Ruby could talk and think of nothing but her great plan for the night, and Ruthy pleaded with her in vain to give it up.
"I don't believe Ruthy will like to go," said Ruby presently, after a little thought. "Ruthy is not going, my dear," answered her father. "Oh, isn't Ruthy going?" asked Ruby, in surprise. "I thought of course Ruthy would go if I did. Oh, papa, I can't go without Ruthy. I truly can't. Won't you make her go with me? Please do; and then I will try not to cry about going."
I won't tell you until you have guessed six times." "I am afraid I won't ever know, then," sighed Ruthy. "I can't think of six places to guess. Are you going to New York?" "No," answered Ruby. "It is a great deal more important than going to New York. You know folks don't stay long when they go to New York, and they don't take a " but she clapped her hands over her mouth to shut out the next word.
She was impatient to hear Ruthy exclaim with admiration over the beautiful sacque and hood, and to see how proud her father and mother would be when she slipped the wristlets upon their hands, and told them that she had taken every stitch for them with her own fingers.
Then followed inquiries and replies as to who were sold, who remained, and what transpired at the sale. Said Levi, "Mother, were you sold?" "No, child; but a good many were sold; among them, your Uncles Anthony and Dennis." I said, "Aunt Ruthy, did they sell Uncle Sammy?" "No, child." "Where, then, is Uncle Sammy?" I thought, if I could be with Uncle Sammy, may-be I would be safe.
"I went out and stayed a long time, but it was n't very nice. Anyway, let's don't talk about that, Ruthy. I have got something to tell you that you could never, never guess, I don't believe, if you tried for one hundred times. Now I will give you six guesses, and you can see if you can guess right. I am going somewhere in about two weeks. Can you guess where?" "Going somewhere?" echoed Ruthy.
"Now, Ruthy, I thought you would go with me, even if you didn't think it would be very nice at first," Ruby said, in rather reproving tones. "Of course you think it would n't be nice, but it would be after you got used to it, and you would have a trunk, too, maybe. Wouldn't that be nice?" But the trunk was no comfort to Ruthy.
I should be so frightened if I was you that I would just scream and scream till some one heard me and came and got me." "I would n't have such a baby as you to stay with me," Ruby said. "I am going to do it just as sure as anything, Ruthy Warren, and if you breathe a word of it to any one so I don't get let to do it, I will never, never speak to you again as long as I live and breathe."
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