The Peterkin PapersHale, Lucretia P. (Lucretia Peabody)
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The Peterkin Papers
Hale, Lucretia P. (Lucretia Peabody)
Family life -- Juvenile fiction; Humorous stories
Mrs. Peterkin was tempted to stay another night, to be wakened once
more by the guinea-hens. But Elizabeth Eliza bore her off. There was
not much packing to be done. She shouted good-by into the ears of the
deaf old lady, and waved her hand to the foreign one, and glad to bid
farewell to the old men with their pipes, leaning against the porch.
"This time," she said, "it is not our trunks that were lost"--
"But we, as a family," said Mrs. Peterkin.
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