[Six to Sixteen by Juliana Horatia Ewing]@TWC D-Link bookSix to Sixteen CHAPTER XXII 4/11
We made all the beds look very tidy.
The fourth bed was given to me. "Now you _are_ our sister!" Eleanor cried.
"It seems to make it so real now you have got _her_ bed." We thoroughly put in order the old nursery, which was now "the boys' room," a proceeding in which Growler and Pincher took great interest, jumping on and off the beds, and smelling everything as we set it out. Growler was Clement's dog, I found, and Pincher belonged to Jack. "They'll come in a cab, because of the luggage," said Eleanor, "and because we are never quite sure when they will come; so it's no use sending to meet them.
They often miss trains on purpose to stay somewhere on the road for fun.
But I think they'll come all right this time--I begged them to--and we'll go and meet them in the donkey-carriage." The donkey-carriage was a pretty little thing on four wheels, with a seat in front and a seat behind, each capable of holding one small person.
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