CHAPTER I.
STARTING.
One beautiful morning in October the sun came up rejoicing.
Dotty Dimple watched it from the window with feelings of peculiar pleasure.
"I should think that old sun would wear out and grow rough round the edges.

Why not?
Last week it was ever so dull; now it is bright.

I shouldn't wonder if the angels up there have to scour it once in a while." You perceive that Dotty's ideas of astronomy were anything but correct.
She supposed the solar orb was composed of a very peculiar kind of gold, which could be rubbed as easily as Norah's tin pans, though so intensely hot that one's fingers would, most likely, be scorched in the operation.
On this particular morning she felt an unusual interest in the state of the weather.

It had been decided that she should go West with her father, and this was the day set for departure.

"I am happy up to my throat:" so she said to Prudy.