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"Did you know I went sleigh-riding this afternoon?" "Did you?" "Yes; George took me out." "That was nice," said Maria. "We went to Wayland. The sleighing is lovely." "I thought it looked so," said Maria. "It is. Say, Maria!" "Well?" "He said things to me this afternoon that sounded as if he did mean them. He did, really." "Did he?"
When I was about eleven years old, I started from Keene, with one of my sisters, to go and visit another sister, who was married and living at Hookset Falls, over on the Merrimac. It was in winter, and we set out in a sleigh with one horse. I was driver. My idea of sleighing was bells and fast driving; and I put the poor beast up to all he knew.
The next day was clear and bright. The sleighing was perfect. I was miserable. I had not slept. I could not eat. I dared not go into the village to encounter the jokes which I was certain awaited me there. Early in the evening, just as the moon rose, I took my stand behind a clump of trees, half-way up a hill, where I knew the sleighs must pass.
When the sulky sleighing party reached Luckenough they found Commodore Waugh not only up and waiting, but in the highest state of self-satisfaction, a blessing of which they received their full share of benefit, for the old man, in the overflowing of his joy, had ordered an oyster supper, which was now all ready to be served smoking hot to the chilled and hungry sleigh-riders.
"But they are so good and industrious," said Violet, "and the sleighing is not likely to last long. It seldom does with us." "And they have been so closely confined to the house of late, by the inclemency of the weather," he added.
"Oh, no, no, he won't!" said Arabella. "I'd rather walk all the way than have Aunt Matilda know that I've been sleighing." "Why, how funny!" and Patricia stared in surprise. "It's funnier now than it would be when Aunt Matilda found it out." "Why?" Patricia asked.
The four principal towns of West and North Bothnia are thus characterised in an old verse of Swedish doggerel: Umeå, the fine; Piteå, the needle-making; Luleå, the lazy; and in Torneå, everybody gets drunk. We took some refreshment, pushed on and reached Abyn between nine and ten o'clock, having travelled seventy miles since morning. The sleighing was superb.
Clarke is not known to me personally, but very much through our common friend General Dayton. With respectful compliments and thanks to Mrs. Ellery, I am your friend, A. Burr. In a former letter I told you we had eight inches snow at Washington. On Saturday last, 28th, fell six or eight inches more, so that we had a foot depth of snow, cold weather, and, of course, good sleighing.
In winter, he had sleighing, snowshoeing, and every exercise compatible with the severe weather and the very deep snow incident to the station.
"Of course they'll meet me in a sleigh, won't they, papa?" she said. "Perhaps so, but I doubt it," he replied. "They don't have such snowstorms in Jersey now as they used to when I was a boy. Last winter they had no sleighing at all. But here comes Miss Powers; let us go to greet her." Miss Powers was a sharp-faced lady who came marching along the platform with a firm step.
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