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Surprises.
"Is it pleasant ?" was the question Jill asked before she was fairly awake on Christmas morning.
"Yes, dear; as bright as heart could wish.

Now eat a bit, and then I'll make you nice for the day's pleasure.

I only hope it won't be too much for you," answered Mrs.Pecq, bustling about, happy, yet anxious, for Jill was to be carried over to Mrs.Minot's, and it was her first attempt at going out since the accident.
It seemed as if nine o'clock would never come, and Jill, with wraps all ready, lay waiting in a fever of impatience for the doctor's visit, as he wished to superintend the moving.

At last he came, found all promising, and having bundled up his small patient, carried her, with Frank's help, in her chair-bed to the ox-sled, which was drawn to the next door, and Miss Jill landed in the Boys' Den before she had time to get either cold or tired.