Todd, as if to impress the sad fact upon her mind.
"She was some years younger than we be, too. I recollect the first
day she ever came to school; 'twas that first year mother
sent me inshore to stay with aunt Topham's folks and get my
schooling. You fetched little Louisa to school one Monday mornin'
in a pink dress an' her long curls, and she set between you an' me,
and got cryin' after a while, so the teacher sent us home with her
at recess."
"She was scared of seeing so many children about her; there
was only her and me and brother John at home then; the older boys
were to sea with father, an' the rest of us wa'n't born," explained
Mrs. Fosdick. "That next fall we all went to sea together. Mother
was uncertain till the last minute, as one may say. The ship was
waiting orders, but the baby that then was, was born just in time,
and there was a long spell of extra bad weather, so mother got
about again before they had to sail, an' we all went. I remember
my clothes were all left ashore in the east chamber in a basket
where mother'd took them out o' my chist o' drawers an' left 'em
ready to carry aboard.
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