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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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to theglare of the new bright boards of which the walls were made. Inside there were tables and chairs, some of recent construction,others brought from garret and barn ; and everywhere flowers,— inginger pots, flower pots, and knotholes in the boards. Coloredprints from the Graphic adorned the walls. How nice you have made it look ! said Bessie, after sometime had been occupied in admiring details. Now, Alice, showthem your surprise. Perhaps you will not like them, said Alice shyly, but Iwanted to make something for the House. She was opening her paper parcel as she spoke, and now drewout of it a set of curtains for the window, made of delightful gaychintz with great roses spreading over it. Strange to say, the curtains exactly fitted the window. Theywere all ready to put up, and just the size to stretch in gatheredfolds across the top, and parting in the middle, to fall to theground. There were bright ribbons with which to loop up eitherside. (Ifi plviifj Ili iiii,:Mi;yi%j;,\,. iir
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FINISHING TOUCHES. THE HOUSE IN THE WOODS. 253 How did you know how to make them fit ? said Tom. How did you know there was a window.? asked Hubert. We made Augustine tell, and was it not clever of him, heknew the exact dimensions of the window. Where is Augustine.? then they asked, all of them. The girls related how they left him gathering berries in the hotsun, and in compassion for such labors, the boys agreed to con-done for good and all his abandoning work at the House. But all this time, exclaimed Bessie, we ought to be settingthe table, and somebody must get the baskets. So the boys led the way to a short distance from the House,where, with planks left over from its construction, they had erecteda table on legs driven down into the ground, a foot high, suited,as they explained, to the height of the seats, which were noth-ing else than the ground. The tablecloth was in the parcel with the curtains, so thatcould be spread at once; and soon Ernest came panting backfrom the bars wi

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