Old Ninety-Nine's Cave

by Elizabeth H. Gray

“I wish,” replied Hernando, “that we may live to be as old as ‘Old Ninety-Nine,’ as loyal as Granny, as happy together as your father and mother, and that we may ‘keep’ ourselves as ‘unspotted from the world’ as Reuben.”

Transcriber’s Note:

The [Contents] has been added by the transcriber.

Punctuation has been standardised. Spelling and hyphenation have been retained as they appear in the original publication except as follows:

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  of the mountain,—Maratanza, A wasting changed to
  of the mountain,—Maratanza, [Awosting]