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Updated: August 24, 2024
"Along about Tuesday Uncle Cal put out for San Antone on the last wagonload of wool. Marilla's uncle Ben, who lived in Birdstail, come over and stayed at the ranch while Uncle Cal was gone. "It was ninety miles to San Antone, and forty to the nearest railroad-station, so Uncle Cal was gone about four days. I was over at the Double-Elm when he came rolling back one evening about sundown.
"I didn't believe it either. Ah, you wagonload!" "Why a wagonload?" Nikolay asked with a sad smile, looking at the Little Russian. "Because there's a resemblance!" Suddenly Nikolay broke into a loud guffaw, his mouth opening wide. "What is it?" the Little Russian asked in surprise, stopping in front of him. "It struck me that he'd be a fool who'd want to insult you!"
I knew pretty well that Andrew would go up in the air when he saw that wagonload of books and one of those crazy cards with Mr. Mifflin's poetry on it. I must confess that I was considerably upset. Andrew is just as unpractical and fanciful as a young girl, and always dreaming of new adventures and rambles around the country. If he ever saw that travelling Parnassus he'd fall for it like snap.
Settlers driven from their homes in the upper valley formed almost a procession of misery-stricken people, making their way on horseback, on foot, and in wagons toward Medicine Bend. With them they were bringing all they had saved from the flood the little bunch of cows, the wagonload of hogs, the household effects, the ponies as if war or pestilence had struck the valley. At noon Marion arrived.
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