Thank Heaven, I am pretty strong and healthy, and better fitted than many to encounter the fatigues and exposures which are the lot of the private." "How early must you start to-morrow, father ?" inquired Frank.
"By daylight.

I must be in Boston by nine o'clock, and you know it is a five-mile ride to the depot.

I shall want you to carry me over." "Will there be room for me ?" asked Mrs.Frost.

"I want to see the last of you." "I hope you won't do that for a long time to come," said Mr.Frost, smiling.
"You know what I mean, Henry." "Oh, yes, there will be room.

At any rate, we will make room for you.
And now it seems to me it is time for these little folks to go to bed.
Charlie finds it hard work to keep his eyes open." "Oh, papa, papa, not yet, not yet," pleaded the children; and with the thought that it might be many a long day before he saw their sweet young faces again, the father suffered them to have their way.
After the children had gone to bed Frank and his father and mother sat up for a long time.