the name of our estate. It is ten miles from the landing,and twelve from the nearest railway-station, but the roadsare good, and the country through which they pass is charm-ing. My design was to sort of camp out, as it were, in thefamily mansion; I knew I could find some clean straw tospread on… … THE OLD HOUSE AT GREEN POINT. THE QUEENS BODY-GUARD. 25 beguiled the long two hours which the mule considerednecessary for the ten mile journey, by asking my driver hownear Green Point I could find supplies ? and he answered mewith gravity, giving me several names and residences. As hedid not…
Children's stories, American
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