"Ay, Fanny," said her mother, "little hands may do God's work, if they but take it up in His strength and with His help."
"Well," said Mr. Porter, when he had taken the homeward-bound party safely to the place where they were to take the boat down the river, "I reckon one of the best jobs I ever did was to take you up Chalecoo mountain for the first time, and one of the worst to bring you down for the last."
"But you can find consolement to think we are coming back some other time," said Maggie; "and we thank you very much for letting us have a nice time this summer, Mr. Porter."
"Yes," said Bessie, "we had a lovely, happy time among the mountains, even if the sea was not there."
And now as we leave our Maggie and Bessie, are there not some little friends who will say that they have spent a useful as well as a happy summer among the mountains?
THE END
Cambridge: Press of John Wilson and Son.
Transcriber's Notes
The cover image, added by the transcriber, is a copy of the title page which is in the public domain.
Minor punctuation typos have been silently corrected.
Retained both spellings of "Fanny" and "Fannie."
Page [41]: Changed "eat" to "ate."
(Orig: cracked and eat his almond.)
Page [354]: Retained original sentence, but Dolly was dead.
(Orig: "Well, I hope we may see them all back another summer," she said to Dolly and Fanny, who stood beside her,)