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heart swell and the tears come into her eyes.
It seemed to her as though she had never seen the grass so green
just a hedge of blossoming shrubs with the tall trees shooting
corner of the paddock fence. A pool had been scooped out for the
tinkled down over the polished pebbles to the wider, more
of the swamp.
Toby told her, before they reached the hummock, that this stream.html">stream
latter really was an island.html">island.html">island. Unless the ice remained firm they
at a time.
"Then you live on an island," cried Nan.
"Huh! Ye might say so," complained Toby. "And sometimes we feel
island.
They went up to the house along the bank of the clear stream. On
rocking in a low chair and another figure in what seemed at a
and a high back to it.
"Here's Gran'pop!" cried a shrill voice and the little wagon
fear as it pitched downward. But the wheels did not bump over
laid slantingly at that side, and over this the wheels ran
cripple. "Some day you'll break your blessed neck."
Nan thought he was a little boy, until they met. Then she was
body! Corson Vanderwiller had a broad brow, a head of beautiful,
twenty-five years old.
But Nan soon learned that the poor cripple was not grown in mind,
speech and manner, too. He was bashful with Nan at first; then
gained his confidence.
He wheeled himself about in the little express wagon very well
wagon and steered it. His arms and hands were quite strong, and
grandfather had hung there, and dragged himself, wagon and all,
childish toys, a number of them showing the mechanical skill of
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