All of it would have been so much better if she could have told her mother, and given the money into her keeping; but the struggle to get a start had been so terrible, Elnora was afraid to take the risk.

When she reached home, she only told her mother that the last of the things had been sold that evening.
"I think," said Mrs.Comstock, "that we will ask Wesley to move that box over here back of the garden for you.

There you are apt to get tolled farther into the swamp than you intend to go, and you might mire or something.

There ought to be just the same things in our woods, and along our swampy places, as there are in the Limberlost.

Can't you hunt your stuff here ?" "I can try," said Elnora.