Perry, and was able to
clothe herself, and put something by in the bank. At least, she
hoped to be able to go on doing that, if the orders came in as they
had done.
"When I leave school I shall have ever so much more time, too," she
thought, joyfully,--for Huldah did not love school, and longed for
the time when she would be freed from it.
In the middle of the field rose a high hillock, over which the young
lambs loved to run and play in the spring-time, and on the top of the
hillock lay the trunk of a large tree, which had lain there ever
since a storm had blown it down years ago.
Huldah, at any rate, was glad of the idleness which had never put the
tree to any good use, for it formed her favourite seat now. The view
from it was lovely, she could look right down over the slope of the
hill to the woods and stream at the foot, and then away up over the
moorland beyond, and she could see the road, too, and keep watch over
the cottage, and if Aunt Martha wanted her, she had only to step to
the door and wave her hand.
Sometimes during that summer she got Mrs. Perry up to the fallen tree
too, and more than once they had their tea there. But Mrs. Perry was
not very fond of sitting out of doors, and more often Huldah was
alone, save for Dick, alone with her thoughts and hopes and dreams.
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