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Grace Harlowe’s Overland Riders Among the Kentucky Mountaineers

CHAPTER XX
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Perhaps you might sleep there.

I must stay with Elfreda, at least until the doctor comes." All the girls began to prepare for moving, and finally their possessions were strapped in packs, some of which they placed on the backs of ponies, for they were one mule short, and moved up to Thompson's.
Bidding her companions wait outside, Grace went in and consulted with the mountaineer's wife.
"Yes, you folks will have to sleep in the barn," Grace informed them.
"I never thought I should have to sleep with the pigs and the cows," declared Nora.

"Bad luck to the man that spoiled our fun." There was an old haymow overhead in the barn, and there the girls decided to make their bed for the night.
"If there are mice up here I shall die of fright, I know," groaned Emma.
"'Con-centrate' on the mice," advised Anne teasingly.

"Once they bump against that 'imponderable quantity,' the mice will trouble you no more." "Why can't we go into the cabin and lie down on the floor?
It can't be worse than the barn," urged Nora.
Grace firmly refused to permit it.

Not knowing what the two children were suffering from, she knew that it would be inadvisable for her companions even to enter the cabin.
The girls found their way to the hayloft, after many bumps and falls accompanied by smothered cries and loud protests from Emma, and after he had tethered the horses and the mule just outside the barn, Washington Washington was put to bed on the barn floor.


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