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"We stored our furniture when the lease expired in May and rushed headlong to our doom. We thought it was a paradise on earth toward which we were flying, and maybe it would have been if the cook and the maid and the man of all work at the place hadn't decided that since their real family was gone, this would be a nice time to run home to the old country for a visit. And they went, two days after we came. They looked us over in a cold and orltlcal way and disapproved of us and departed. "We got lots of exercise before we found help. Tom used to rise at four and weed the garden and I got up at the same time to feed the chickens, turn on the automatic pump, get breakfast and superintend Tom's milking. He was kicked through the barn door only twice and we considered that the record was pretty good for a greenhorn, fcle had some minor mishaps, like poking back all the beans when they came up, pushing the seed ahead of them and training the potato vines up on strings Instead of the peas, but trouble didn't really start until later.
"One day we wero sitting in the flower garden having lunch, and I told Dotty, aged four, to go indoors for something. We watched her disappear Into the house and then Tom said, "Could anything be more peaceful or inspiring than this perfect day!' And I responded in similar blank verse. Just then the neighbor whose cottage was on the lake shore came tearing around the corner of our house.
"She stared at us as though we annoyed her. 'Aren't you folks In bathing?' she inquired. 'Well, somebody is out in front, and I thought—'
"Tom and I did a foot race to the water unconscious and black in the lake and he fished Dotty out of the face. That child had marched in at the back door of the house and as promptly marched out through the front door and proceeded to take a paddle by herself in the lake, inspired by some unaccountable juvenile impulse.
"Dotty came out of her trance In two hours, but during that time I got ten gray hairs and Tom's nervous system was permanently shattered.
"It was a couple of weeks later that
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