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Show Page 57 about four feet long. Come September many will be nine or twelve feet. Then when they leap into your boat you have a merry time." I hoped I would not have that experience. The experiences I had had in one day in Virginia were already enough to last me till my hair withered grey upon my head. The sun had slid below the horizon when at last we came to Martin's Hundred. It was indeed the settlement I had seen from the deck of the Jonathan two days before. (Only two days? In truth, it seemed like a year!) I was soon settled on a pallet before the fire at the home of Walter and Margaret Davidson, who, after being roused from their bed, agreed that I would live with them in return for tutoring their servant and helping in the daily work. Anne and Cisly had already gone to their home. It was lonely without my friend beside me. I comforted myself with the thought that I had found a home. I hoped someday to truly feel at home there in that wild land of Indians and giant, leaping fish. But all things in Virginia were not fearsome. I would go to sleep thinking of the cardinal and the bluebird--and turkey. ******************** |