Little Women - 912 Freedom Library

Little Womencolor I never saw, the grass so green, sky so blue, grain soyellow, woods so dark, I was in a rapture all the way. Sowas Flo, and we kept bouncing from one side to theother, trying to see everything while we were whiskingalong at the rate of sixty miles an hour. Aunt was tired andwent to sleep, but Uncle read his guidebook, andwouldn’t be astonished at anything. This is the way wewent on. Amy, flying up—‘Oh, that must be Kenilworth,that gray place among the trees!’ Flo, darting to mywindow—‘How sweet! We must go there sometime,won’t we Papa?’ Uncle, calmly admiring his boots—‘No,my dear, not unless you want beer, that’s a brewery.’A pause—then Flo cried out, ‘Bless me, there’s agallows and a man going up.’ ‘Where, where?’ shrieksAmy, staring out at two tall posts with a crossbeam andsome dangling chains. ‘A colliery,’ remarks Uncle, with atwinkle of the eye. ‘Here’s a lovely flock of lambs all lyingdown,’ says Amy. ‘See, Papa, aren’t they pretty?’ addedFlo sentimentally. ‘Geese, young ladies,’ returns Uncle, ina tone that keeps us quiet till Flo settles down to enjoy theFLIRTATIONS OF CAPTAIN CAVENDISH, and Ihave the scenery all to myself.Of course it rained when we got to London, and therewas nothing to be seen but fog and umbrellas. We rested,550 of 861