PLEDGE SIGNING AT TRILLIUM SPRING 59 



me home, I guess, for mother must be wondering 

 what has become of me." 



'Hannah Maria, they're coming back ! I can 

 hear their drumming. Do come to the window ! 

 They will want us to see them go by." 



Around the bend of the road they came into 

 view, and soon entered the garden gate, Mr. 

 Brown and Jamie side by side at the head of the 

 procession. 



"Hurrah, mother, we all belong now!" Mr. 

 Brown called out to his wife. "Aren't you glad, 

 little woman? That pledge at Trillium Spring, 

 with the birds singing and the children praying, 

 ought to make a teetotaler of any man." 



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