lematis could hardly believe it all, at first.

She followed her grandfather all about, wherever he went, for fear
he might fly away, and never come back.

In the golden October, they moved up to the white house on the hill,
grandfather, Clematis, and Deborah.

There Clematis had the room over the porch, where the vines climbed
around her window. She could look out each morning, and see the
river, and the lakes, with the mountains beyond.

She felt a little strange among all the new people she saw each day,
and she had very much to learn. But Clematis learned the best thing
of all, to do the best she could, and she soon grew into a sweet,
useful girl.

Her little friends loved her, and her teachers helped her, for she
tried to please them, and never complained because things were not
easy to do.

When she heard that Sally and the other girls could hardly believe
her story, she went and whispered to her grandfather.

"May I?" she asked.

"Of course you may," he said, "as many as you want."

Then she wrote a letter all her own self. She invited all the girls
her own age, at the Home, to visit her the next summer, and see for
themselves.

So if you ever go to Tilton, you must look about for a strong, happy
girl, with big brown eyes, who studies her lessons, and works in the
garden, and has the happiest time any girl ever had, with her
grandfather, in the big white house on the hill.

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