Peterkin, mournfully,
"or else send over to the lady from Philadelphia, and see what she
will say."
The little boys jumped out as quickly as they could; they were
eager to go and ask the lady from Philadelphia. Elizabeth Eliza
went with them, while her mother took the reins.
They found that the lady from Philadelphia was very ill that day,
and was in her bed. But when she was told what the trouble was,
she very kindly said they might draw up the curtain from the
window at the foot of the bed, and open the blinds, and she would
see. Then she asked for her opera-glass, and looked through it,
across the way, up the street, to Mrs. Peterkin's door.
After she had looked through the glass, she laid it down, leaned
her head back against the pillow, for she was very tired, and then
said, "Why don't you unchain the horse from the horse-post?"
Elizabeth Eliza and the little boys looked at one another, and then
hurried back to the house and told their mother. The horse was
untied, and they all went to ride.
THE PETERKINS AT HOME. AT DINNER. ANOTHER little
incident occurred in the Peterkin family. This was at dinner-time.
They sat down to a dish of boiled ham. Now it was a peculiarity of
the children of the family, that half of them liked fat, and half
liked lean. Mr. Peterkin sat down to cut the ham. But the ham
turned out to be a very remarkable one. The fat and the lean came
in separate slices,first one of lean, than one of fat, then two slices
of lean, and so on.
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