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us to go in search of the "old lady," whom we really 

 wished to meet. We sauntered along down the pretty 

 country road for nearly a mile before we came to the 

 house that answered the description given us. A 



young woman came to the door, and told us Mrs. 



had gone "down the road." When we told her who we 

 were, and that we came because we knew her friends, she 

 said we must come in and wait while they sent for her. 

 We were shown into the little parlor, and the hour of 

 waiting passed more than pleasantly as one after another 

 of the household came in to chat with us. Presently it 

 was announced that grandma had come, and would be in 

 soon. 



We were entirely unprepared for the overwhelming 

 reception she gave us, all because we knew her friends, 

 for she had never heard even our names. The sea cap- 

 tain had spoken of her as an old lady, and to be sure her 

 hair was white as snow, but all thought of years vanished 

 when she entered the room with the grace and vivacity 

 of youth, her white fluffy hair like a crown of glory, and 

 the old-fashioned crescent which fastened the soft black 

 handkerchief about her neck, flashing in rainbow tints, 

 — and came towards us with open arms. How the time 

 and our tongues did fly! She told us how she celebrated 

 her seventy-sixth birthday, but was she not mistaken? 

 Had our eyes been shut, we should have declared her 

 sixteen, and when we finally said we must go, she seized 

 the lantern her son brought to guide us through the 

 chairs and hammocks in the front yard, and refusing any 

 wraps, or even her son's hat, she put her arms around 



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