Little Pilgrim at Aunt Lou’s.—frontispiece.
Bessie was seated on the barn-floor, with all the little kittens in herlap.
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The Little Pilgrim Series.
Little Pilgrim
At Aunt Lou’s.
PHILADELPHIA:
AMERICAN SUNDAY-SCHOOL UNION,
No. 1122 CHESTNUT STREET.
New York: Nos. 8 and 10 Bible House, Astor Place.
Chicago: 73 Randolph Street.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1879, by the AMERICAN SUNDAY-SCHOOL UNION,
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.
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LITTLE PILGRIM AT AUNT LOU’S.
I.
It was a long time after Christmas, and the snow and ice had allmelted, and the trees were green again, and the flowers and birds hadall come back.
Summer was just beginning again; and on the very day that she was fiveyears old the little pilgrim started on a long journey with papa andmamma and Aunt Lillie.
They were going into the country[Pg 6] to Aunt Lou’s, to stay for a greatmany weeks—mamma and Aunt Lillie and Bessie; and papa was going totake them there and stay one night, and then go home again, because hehad to attend to his business.
Grandpapa was not going at all now, because he could not leave hischurch and his poor people; but by and by, he said, when the days andnights were both too hot for him, he would take a vacation like theschool-children, and go to Aunt Lou’s for a month.
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Rosy and Jane had promised to take good care of the house, and theyboth stood at the gate watching the family off.
At first the little pilgrim thought it very fine to go off in thesteam-cars and watch the houses and trees fly past the windows, forthis is what they seemed to do; but the cars did the flying, while thehouses and trees stayed just where they were before.
There was not a happier little girl to be found that morning thanBessie. She had a beautiful little trunk with her that held allBlanche’s[Pg 8] clothes, and the key of the trunk was on a ribbon around herneck. Blanche, you know, was her best dolly—the one her mamma gave heron her last birthday—and she had always taken great care of her, sothat she was now almost as good as new.
When mamma began to pack the trunks her little daughter brought nearlyevery plaything she had to be packed too, for she seemed to think thateverything she had must go with her to Aunt Lou’s. But mamma told herthat there was not[Pg 9] room for all her toys, and that she must choose afew things to take with her, and leave the rest.
Bessie was very much puzzled what to choose, and which of her dolliesto leave behind. She was afraid that if she took Blanche, Sarah Janewould feel badly; and if she took Sarah Jane, Blanche wo