A journey to nature . verydemure, making me fetch water, climb trees tofasten ropes up for swings, everybody else regard-ing me, I thought, with a slight awe. It gaveme a great deal of quiet satisfaction to take myorders, especially when they were confidential,and tacitly to concede her right to direct me,though how she got the right, or when it wasconferred, Im blessed if I know. Altogether I entered into the spirit of thething with a zest that surprised me, and whenthe sun was setting, we all bundled into ourwagons and went off homeward, making thehighway ring with our homely songs. But that
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A journey to nature . verydemure, making me fetch water, climb trees tofasten ropes up for swings, everybody else regard-ing me, I thought, with a slight awe. It gaveme a great deal of quiet satisfaction to take myorders, especially when they were confidential, and tacitly to concede her right to direct me, though how she got the right, or when it wasconferred, Im blessed if I know. Altogether I entered into the spirit of thething with a zest that surprised me, and whenthe sun was setting, we all bundled into ourwagons and went off homeward, making thehighway ring with our homely songs. But that night when Charlie and I were in bed, I asked him how he had enjoyed himself. 87 A JOURNEY TO NATURE I think, Dad, he said, that we would havehad a good deal more fun if we had gone to thecircus and left Griselle out of it. Shes toosmart. Do you think so. Comrade ? Yes. She told me to go and play — thatshed take care of you. Hark, I said, theres the band. Theshow is over. They are playing Listen to theMocking-bird.. 88