`` It would n't be fair to take it for that , '' said Ray , flushing . `` You and Will -- '' `` Will and I say you must take it , '' said Sara . `` Do n't we , Will ? There is nothing we want so much as to give you a college start . It is an enormous burden off my mind to think it is so nicely provided for . Besides , most of those old things were yours by the right of rediscovery , and you voted first of all to have Aunt Josephina come . '' `` You must take it , of course , Ray , '' said Willard . `` Nothing else would give Sara and me so much pleasure . A blessing on Aunt Josephina . '' `` Amen , '' said Sara and Ray . The Christmas Surprise at Enderly Road `` Phil , I 'm getting fearfully hungry . When are we going to strike civilization ? '' The speaker was my chum , Frank Ward . We were home from our academy for the Christmas holidays and had been amusing ourselves on this sunshiny December afternoon by a tramp through the `` back lands , '' as the barrens that swept away south behind the village were called . They were grown over with scrub maple and spruce , and were quite pathless save for meandering sheep tracks that crossed and recrossed , but led apparently nowhere . Frank and I did not know exactly where we were , but the back lands were not so extensive but that we would come out somewhere if we kept on . It was getting late and we wished to go home . `` I have an idea that we ought to strike civilization somewhere up the Enderly Road pretty soon , '' I answered . `` Do you call that civilization ? '' said Frank , with a laugh .
No Blackburn Hill boy was ever known to miss an opportunity of flinging a slur at Enderly XXXXX , even if no Enderly Roader were by to feel the sting .
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