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"I couldn't leave the stock fer that long, ennyhow you fix it Thur ain't no one would know to take my place Besides, I never was fer takin' journeys; but 'Meelia Ellen, she's allus ben of a sprightlier disposition, an' ef she hez a hankerin' after Californy, I 'spect she'll be kinder more contented like ef she sees 'eo while she's got the chancet"

Amelia Ellen succumbed, albeit with tears Hazel could not tell whether she was lad or sad at the prospect before her Whiles Amelia Ellen wept and bemoaned the fate of poor Burley, and whiles she questioned whether there really were any big trees like what you saw in the geographies with riding parties sitting contentedly in tunnels through their trunks But at last she consented to go, and with hbours who caood-bye to her sole, clie beside Hazel, and they drove away into the reat world As she looked back at her Peter, standing patient, stooped and gray in the fa sweetheart as going out sightseeing into the world, Amelia Ellen would almost have jumped out over the wheel and run back if it had not been for what the neighbours would say, for her heart was Burley's; and now that the big trees were actually pulling harder than Burley, and she had decided to go and see thean by his very acquiescence to pull harder than the big trees It was a very teary Amelia Ellen who cli back dise they had just left, and wondering after all if she ever would get back to Granville safe and alive again Strange fears visited her of dangers thather absence, which if they did she would never forgive herself for having left hiht hinder her return; and she began to regard her hitherto beloved travelling coainst her welfare

However, as the rew and the wonders of the way an to sit up and take notice, and to have a sort of excited exultance that she had coreat fa trees and turn back holad she had coot back safely home once more