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[Plessner <su...@ov...>]

Was very rough, and poor Hannah weak. But Ann had a good deal of
strength in her lithe young frame, and she half carried Hannah over the
worst places. Still both of the girls were pretty well spent when they
came to the last of the bits of wool on the border of Bear Swamp.
However, they kept on a little farther; then they had to stop and rest.
"I know where I am now," said Hannah, with a sigh of delight; "but I
don't think I can walk another step." She was, in fact, almost
exhausted. Ann looked at her thoughtfully. She hardly knew what to do.
She could not carry Hannah herself--indeed, her own strength began to
fail; and she did not want to leave her to go for assistance. All of a
sudden, she jumped up. "You stay just where you are a few minutes,
Hannah," said she. "I'm going somewhere. I'll be back soon." Ann was
laughing. Hannah looked up at her pitifully: "O Ann, don't go!" "I'm
coming right back, and it is the only way. You must get home. Only think
how your father and mother are worrying!" Hannah said no more after that
mention of her parents, and Ann started. She was not gone long. When she
came in sight she was laughing, and Hannah, weak as she was, laughed,
too. Ann had torn her blue apron into strips, and tied it together for a
rope, and by it she was leading a red cow. Hannah knew the cow, and knew
at once what the plan was. "O Ann! you mean for me to ride Betty!" "Of
course I do. I just happened to think our cows were in the pasture, down
below here. And we've ridden Betty, lots of times, when we were
children, and she's just as gentle now. Whoa, Betty, good cow." It was
very hard work to get Hannah on to the broad back of her novel steed,
but it was finally accomplished. Betty had been a perfect pet from a
calf, and was exceedingly gentle. She started off soberly across the
fields, with Hannah sitting on her back, and Ann leading her by her blue
rope. It was a funny cavalcade for Captain Ab