“Peace Maythorne says,” said Gypsy, “that if Mrs. Littlejohn went to heaven, she will be so happy to find she doesn’t scold! Isn’t it funny, in Peace, to think of such things?”
Chapter IX
CAMPING OUT
Do you remember Mr. Gough’s famous story of the orator who, with a great flourish of rhetoric as prelude, announced to his audience the startling fact that there was a “gre—at difference in people?” On the strength of this original statement, it has been supposed that there were a variety of tastes to be suited in selecting for the readers of “Gypsy Breynton” the most entertaining passages of this one summer in her life. The last two chapters were for the quiet young people. This one is for the lively young people—the people who like to live out of doors, and have adventures, and get into difficulties, and get over them. The quiet people aforesaid need not read it, if they don’t want to.
Did you ever “camp out”?
If you ever did, or ever very much wanted to, you will know how Gypsy felt one morning after her summer vacation had begun, and she was wondering what she should do with herself all day, when Tom came into her room and said,—