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During these vacations politics was naturally a matter of utter indifference to us, and toward their close we usually paid a visit to my grandmother and aunt in Dresden. So the years passed till Easter came, and with it our confirmation and my separation from Ludo, who was to follow a different career.
Then had come the time when Gifford must go to college, and Lois had only seen him in his short vacations; and these gradually became far from pleasant. "Gifford has changed," she said petulantly. "He is so polite to me," she complained to Helen; not that Gifford had ever been rude, but he had been brotherly. He once asked her for a rose from a bunch she had fastened in her dress.
We used to come out with daddy for vacations and for week-ends and sort of camp out in a grass house that stood right where the Outrigger ladies serve tea now. And centipedes fell out of the thatch on us, while we slept, and we all ate poi and opihis and raw aku, and nobody wore much of anything for the swimming and squidding, and there was no real road to town.
"But I thought during vacations you let only those who had nowhere else to go stay here." "That is just because the girls who have homes to go to prefer to spend their holidays there, Chrystobel. It is unusual for a pupil to elect to stay here on such occasions, particularly at Christmas time. What is the trouble, dear? Have your parents " "Oh, no, it isn't that.
He spent his vacations in Dublin and always called upon his old school friend Edward Sullivan in his rooms at Trinity. Sullivan relates that when they met Oscar used to be full of his occasional visits to London and could talk of nothing but the impression made upon him by plays and players.
Our diet was strong, but very plain; mush and molasses, pork and potatoes. Saturdays we took our axes, and went into the woods and cut cord-wood. During vacations we labored in the harvest-field, or taught a district school, as we could. "Yonder," said he, pointing to a beautiful valley, about two miles distant, "stands the school-house where Garfield first taught school.
There were the vacations, of course but I couldn't afford to leave London I simply lived in hell. I don't say that I didn't get some discipline out of it and my escape gave me a stock of gratitude and delight that has been simply inexhaustible. The misery of it for me was that I had to live an unreal life.
The last two years he had attended the State College, taking the course in agriculture, and had worked in a grocery store in the village during the summer vacations, but this work had been distasteful to him he missed the freedom of outdoor life, especially the birds and animals so plentiful on the farm.
"Well, we had some fun with the donkey, anyhow," put in Ned. "That was about the only comic happening during our camping." "I guess we've had enough of adventures to last for several vacations," spoke Frank. "I'm willing to settle down to a quiet life." But a quiet life was not in store for the four boys, and why will be related in another volume, to be called "Fenn Masterson's Discovery."
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