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Marco Paul’s Voyages and Travels; Vermont

CHAPTER I
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The girl showed Marco her name, which was Mary Williams, written on a card upon the end of it.
"I'll watch your trunk," said Marco, "and you can go in and sit down until the stage comes." Mary thanked him and went in.

She was not, however, quite sure that her baggage was safe, intrusted thus to the charge of a strange boy, and so she took a seat near the window, where she could keep an eye upon it.

There was a blue chest near these trunks, which looked like a sailor's chest, and Marco, being tired of standing, sat down upon this chest.

He had, however, scarcely taken his seat, when he saw a coach with four horses, coming round a corner.

It was driven by a small boy not larger than Marco.


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