She lived at their house during term-time, and she had just come, for school was to begin the next Monday. Her own home was in another part of the mountains.
When the lady asked her how she liked living out in this wild and lonely place, and teaching in the wild and lonely schoolhouse, she smiled until her pretty white teeth showed, and said,—
“Oh, I like it splendid.”
So you see the little children had good reason to love her.
II
LITTLE MITCHELL IS FOUND, AND TAKES A STRANGE JOURNEY
When the little gray bunny mother did not come home, the babies in the crotch of the old chestnut tree got very hungry, and I am sure they cried all night.
No doubt they were cold too, for they had no little furry mother to curl herself about them and keep them warm. Poor babies! I suppose they cuddled as close together as they could, and cried and cried, and wondered why mother did not come home and take care of them.