HYLAND
At the little junction in Vermont they found a farmer with a wagon
full of meal-bags. They asked him if he could not take them up
to the old Keys farm and bring them back in time for the return
train, due in two hours.
They had planned to call it a sketching trip, so they said, 'We
have been there before, we are artists, and we might find some
views worth taking; and we want also to make a short call upon
the Misses Keys.'
'Did ye calculate to paint the old house in the picture?'
They said it was possible they might do so. They wanted to see
it, anyway.
'Waal, I guess you are too late. The house burnt down last night,
and everything in it.'
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1895