He was never a very strong boy and had always been subject to such ailments.

We had to leave him at a wayside farmhouse--the Sylvester place--to be dosed with hot ginger tea.

At last, after losing half an hour there, we went on without him; Addison now shook the salt dish ahead, and I, brandishing a long stick, kept stragglers from lagging in the rear.
Three persons are needed to drive a flock of a hundred sheep; but we saw no way except to go on and do the best we could.

Now that it was light, the sky looked as if a storm were at hand.
The storm did not reach us until nearly eleven o'clock, however; we had got as far as the town of Albany before the first flakes began to fall.
Then Old Peg made trouble.

Leaving the barn and going off so far was against all her ideas of propriety, and now that a snowstorm had set in she was certain that something or other was wrong.