14000 MILES 



regret, however, missing the deluge which came just as 

 Nan was hurrying in to her stall. She knew all the after- 

 noon where she was going, and was impatient with every 

 delay. We did not blame her, for she had taken a great 

 many steps in the seven hundred miles and more, and 

 been equal to every demand, traveling every day but two 

 in the whole month. The miles of this journey swell the 

 number to nearly 15000, but we will not change the 

 title of our book, for 14000 is a multiple of the mystic 

 number 7, and also of the 700 miles of this Postscript. 



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