We thought it so kind of Mrs. Peters to
take you off every day with the other gentlemen, that looked so
wandering."
Elizabeth Eliza did not know whether to laugh or to cry.
Mr. Peterkin and the little boys decided to stay at the farm till
Friday. But Agamemnon and Solomon John preferred to leave
with Mr. Sylvester, and to take their electrical machine and
camera when they came for Mr. Peterkin.
Mrs. Peterkin was tempted to stay another night, to be wakened
once more by the guinea-hens. But Elizabeth Eliza bore her off.
There was not much packing to be done. She shouted good-by into
the ears of the deaf old lady, and waved her hand to the foreign
one, and glad to bid farewell to the old men with their pipes,
leaning against the porch.
"This time," she said, "it is not our trunks that were lost"
"But we, as a family," said Mrs. Peterkin.
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by Lucretia P. Hale
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