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Title: A family flight around home
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Hale, Edward Everett, 1822-1909 Hale, Susan, 1833-1910, joint author
Subjects: New England -- Description and travel United States -- History
Publisher: Boston, D. Lothrop and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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w lovely ! Vigorous pulls of the rowers had brought the boat round awooded corner to an open space, where the shores receded and layflat before them, just in time to see the sun go down in a cloud-less sky, a ball of living fire. Tom and Bessie, panting, rested upon their oars. The little partywatched the sun setting until the last rim had disappeared. We ought to go home now, remarked Mrs. Horner; it willbe growing cool directly. Who are these Stuyvesants.? called out Hubert from the endof the boat. They are some boys who were with us on the Nile, repliedTom; they were small, ill-bred creatures, who had not thefaintest idea of minding what anybody told them, least of all theirfather; as for their mother, she had no idea of telling them any-thing. Tom! Tom! called his father in a warning voice.You arc hard on them, really, Tom, said Bessie. One ofthem was rather nice, though I do not recollect which; but Marycould manage them. I say, began Hubert, let us have them come to Utopia, Tom;
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THE CHIME OF BELLS. I4.i youve no idea how dull it is there withojt any fellows, only a o^irlto talk with all day long. Only a girl! thank you! said Bessie. There are girls aud girls, you know. Bessie, quickly replied■Hubert. Alice Martin is all very well, but — Tell us all about her, said Bessie; and Hubert, sitting up inhis end of the boat, began an account, lively for him, of hisacquaintance with Alice Martin, his adventure in the barn, andother tales of his life in Utopia. I think, said Bessie condescendingly, that Alice must be anice girl. * But if there were other boys, we could have all sorts of o-oodexcursions, and build huts in the woods, and that, pursued Hubert •^especially little boys whom we could make mind. You wait and see if you can make these boys mind, grumbledTom. However, he did not vigorously oppose the scheme. Mr. Hornerknew the Bruces wanted to fill up their house with boys for thesummer, and he thought the chances were more in favor of twoboys they alread

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