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'Wasn't it nice I catched that big bull-frog, Margie?' cried Dick,
his eyes shining with anticipation. 'Now I'll have as many as seven
or 'leven frogs and lots of horned toads when Elsie comes, and she
can help me play with 'em.'
When the girls reached the tents again, the last article had been
taken from the team and Manuel had driven away. The sound of Phil's
hammer could be heard from the carpenter-shop, and Pancho was already
laying the tent floor in a small, open, sunny place, where the low
boughs of a single sycamore hung so as to protect one of its corners,
leaving the rest to the full warmth of the sunshine that was to make
Elsie entirely well again.
'I am tired to death,' sighed Laura, throwing herself down in a
bamboo lounging-chair. 'Such a tramp as we had! and after all, the
boys insisted on going where Dr. Winship wouldn't allow us to follow,
so that we had to stay behind and fish with the children; I wish I
had stayed at home and read The Colonel's Daughter.'
'Oh, Laura!' remonstrated Margery, 'think of that lovely pool with
the forests of maiden-hair growing all about it!'
'And poison-oak,' grumbled Laura. 'I know I walked into some of it
and shall look like a perfect fright for a week. I shall never make
a country girl--it's no use for me to try.'
'It's no use for you to try walking four miles in high-heeled shoes,
my dear,' said Polly, bluntly.
'They are not high,' retorted Laura, 'and if they are, I don't care
to look like a--a--cow-boy, even in the backwoods.
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