e of the establishment. He telegraphed to
say he cannot come till Friday. Now, Mr. Atwood had supposed we were the
Peterses, whom he had sent for the day we arrived, not having received
this telegram."

"Oh, I see, I see!" said Mrs. Peterkin; "and we did get into a muddle at
the station!"

Mr. Atwood met them at the porch. "I beg pardon," he said. "I hope you
have found it comfortable here, and shall be glad to have you stay till
Mr. Peters' family comes."

At this moment wheels were heard. Mr. Sylvester had arrived, with an
open wagon, to take the Peterkins to the "Old Farm."

Martha was waiting within the door, and said to Elizabeth Eliza, "Beg
pardon, miss, for thinking you was one of the inmates, and putting you
in that room. We thought it so kind of Mrs. Peters to take you off every
day with the other gentlemen, that looked so wandering."

Elizabeth Eliza did not know whether to laugh or to cry.

Mr. Peterkin and the little boys decided to stay at the farm till
Friday. But Agamemnon and Solomon John preferred to leave with Mr.
Sylvester, and to take their electrical machine and camera when they
came for Mr. Peterkin.

Mrs. Peterkin was tempted to stay another night, to be wakened once more
by the guinea-hens. But Elizabeth Eliza bore her off. There was not much
packing to be done. She shouted good-by into the ears of the deaf old
lady, and waved her hand to the foreign one, and glad to bid farewell to
the old men with their pipes, leaning against the porch.

"This time," she said, "it is not our trunks that were lost"

"But we, as a family," said Mrs. Peterkin.

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