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Lucy hardly knew whether to be glad or sorry. She was delighted to
stay with her friend, but the thought of being so long away from her
mamma made her feel almost homesick.
"I will write you a letter every day," said Mrs. Coit, seeing the cloud on
her little girl's face.
But the cloud only stayed a minute. "After all," she thought, "mamma
will only be gone for a week, and I would much rather be here with

Ollie than at Aunt Mary's, where there is no one of my own age; and a
letter every day! oh, that will be too delightful!"
"Well, I must go," said Mrs. Coit. "Thank you very much, 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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