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Mrs. Rogers, for taking Lucy; I hope she will be a good child, and not give you any trouble. Good-by."
"Martha will send over your trunk this afternoon," she continued to Lucy. "It is all packed, and William Henry Johnson said he'd bring it over on his way to the mill this evening. Good-by, my dear," and Lucy was seized, hugged, and kissed, and almost before she knew what it was all about her mother had gone, and she was left alone, watching the wagon as it rolled slowly down the road.
She was roused by hearing Ollie's voice close behind her.
"Oh, Lucy, let's go up-stairs, and get the room ready for you. I must move the things in my closet, and make enough bare nails for your dresses."
So the two girls went up-stairs together, and the afternoon was passed in preparations for the coming week.
The next morning Lucy and Ollie went to school as usual, only instead of having a long solitary walk, they each had the other's company, which they found very pleasant. The girls at school were quite astonished to hear that they were spending the week together.
As they were walking back from school, they saw on the beach the signal which was always used to show that there were fish in sight.
"Oh, let us hurry through our dinner," said Ollie, "and go down to the beach. I love to see them draw in their big nets full of fish. It is such fun."
Mrs. Rogers was astonished to see two wild children rush into the house, all out of breath, exclaiming,
"Isn't dinner ready? We are in such a hurry to get down to the beach."
"Yes, dinner is ready," said Mrs. Rogers; "you can sit down as soon as you like."
As soon as they had eaten as much as they wanted, and had been excused, they rushed to the beach. The men were just preparing to launch the big boat through the surf. When the children came in sight, the captain of the crew saw them and said,
"Hold up a minute; here are our little friends; they always enjoy a dance on the waves; let's wait, and take them in."
So they beckoned to the children, and in a few minutes they were seated in the boat. The word of command was given, and off they went--now up on the top of the wave, now down, down, down.
They had an unusually good haul of fish, which the men insisted was all owing to the presence of the two little girls. They stayed on the beach or in the boat all the afternoon, and finally went home to supper so hungry that Mrs. Rogers laughingly declared that she could not possibly cook enough in one day to satisfy them.
Mrs. Coit kept her promise and wrote to Lucy every day, and between her letters and her good times with Ollie, the days passed so quickly that Lucy was surprised to find at last that the hour for her departure had arrived.
"How little we thought that day when I walked home with you that I was to be here a week!"
"I wish we were going to have it all over again," said Ollie.
"So do I," said Lucy.
THE END.
Transcriber's Note
The following typos have been corrected.
Page Typo Correction 13 shorer shorter 46 joyfully joyfully.

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