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Excerpt from Home Pictures
I was tying the clematis to the trellis early this morning; the pink buds, shining with dew, looked like red lips pouting to kiss me. I was thinking what a sweet picture we would make Milly standing under neath - the prettiest child in the world, I think - with our gray puss in her arms, her brown hair blown in tangled skeins over her milk-white neck and shoulders. Then skipping over the green grass was my pet lamb, fresh from the wash, and pure as snow. I had reached as far as my arms would allow, and was just consider ing the propriety of mounting the slender wood-work, when Milly screamed. A short, quick cry of alarm it was, and as I turned, the sight I saw almost froze me with horror.
Milly shrieked again, and so did I; for there lay a gentleman just before us, who had been violently dash ed on the ground from the back of a runaway horse.
Mother ran out very much frightened, and when we pointed to the lifeless figure, she turned pale. Now our cottage stands some distance from any other - my uncle's is the nearest - and we have only two hands at work on the farm. Maben was away Off in the potato patch; but, providentially, Michael was at the lower end of the garden.
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