The road to yesterday. by L. M. Montgomery

Author:L. M. Montgomery [Montgomery, L. M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Short stories, Canada -- Fiction
ISBN: 0207956464
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Ryerson
Published: 1974-04-03T19:00:00+00:00

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“I ... I wish ... I wish you weren’t going west,” Pat said politely.He did wish it, too, with all his heart.

“Oh!” Barney laughed again. Long, low infectious laughter. Pat feltit would make anybody laugh. Even Uncle Stephen. Or Miss CynthiaAdams. Which, Pat felt, would be the biggest miracle of all thismiraculous day. What a birthday it had been!

And what was Barney saying?

“Oh,” said Barney, still laughing, “Barbara Anne won’t be goingwest now.”

“Where will she be going?” asked Pat.

“Ah, that is the question. Where will you be going, Barbara Anne?”

Barbara Anne’s face was very red. “I . . . might move across theroad,” she said. “What . . . what do you think of that idea, Barney?”

“I think it is a very good one,” said Barney, “since you honour me byasking my advice.”

“I think I will take it-for once,” said Barbara Anne saucily.

Pat had a feeling that both Barney and Barbara Anne wished heand the Squaw Baby were miles away. And, strangely enough, he didnot resent it.

But there was one thing he must find out first. Then he would askthe Squaw Baby if she would like to go and see the kittens.

“Where is Barbara Anne going?” he persisted. “There is no placeacross the road but Sometyme.”

Both Barney and Barbara Anne fairly shouted with laughter.

“We’ll have to let her live here, with us, at Sometyme, I suppose,”said Barney. “Would you be willing to have her here?”

“Ed love it,” said Pat gravely. “Will the Squaw Baby come too?”

“Pm afraid her father and mother would not want to give her up,”said Barney. “But I think you will see enough of her for all that - toomuch perhaps.”

“Nonsense!” said Pat.

He had never dared to say “nonsense” to anyone in his life before.But one could say things at Sometyme. And what was the Squaw Babysaying ?

“Let’s go and have a look at the kittens,” she said. “Perhaps Mommawill let me have one though Walter Blythe has been promised theprettiest. I don’t like Walter Blythe, do you?”

“Why don’t you like him?” asked Pat, feeling that he loved Walter

Blythe with all his heart.

The Cheated Child

“He doesn’t care whether I stick my tongue out at him or not,” saidthe Squaw Baby.

They went to see the kittens, leaving Barney and Barbara looking ateach other - at least as long as they were in sight.

“What a fight you’ll have with the Brewsters!” said Barbara Anne.“I can fight the whole world and lick it now,” said Barney.

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