`` Guess I am ! '' and Dan 's eyes roved away to the green hills and woods where he longed to be . `` Suppose we take a little turn before the others come back ? That big , easy carriage will be quite safe and comfortable , and a breath of fresh air will do you good . Get a cushion and a shawl , Demi , and let 's carry Dan off . '' The boys thought it a capital joke , and Dan looked delighted , but asked , with an unexpected burst of virtue , `` Will Mrs. Bhaer like it ? '' `` Oh , yes ; we settled all that a minute ago . '' `` You did n't say any thing about it , so I do n't see how you could , '' said Demi , inquisitively . `` We have a way of sending messages to one another , without any words . It is a great improvement on the telegraph . '' `` I know it 's eyes ; I saw you lift your eyebrows , and nod toward the carriage , and Mrs. Bhaer laughed and nodded back again , '' cried Nat , who was quite at his ease with kind Mr. Laurie by this time . `` Right . Now them , come on , '' and in a minute Dan found himself settled in the carriage , his foot on a cushion on the seat opposite , nicely covered with a shawl , which fell down from the upper regions in a most mysterious manner , just when they wanted it . Demi climbed up to the box beside Peter , the black coachman . Nat sat next Dan in the place of honor , while Uncle Teddy would sit opposite , to take care of the foot , he said , but really that he might study the faces before him both so happy , yet so different , for Dan 's was square , and brown , and strong , while Nat 's was long , and fair , and rather weak , but very amiable with its mild eyes and good forehead . `` By the way , I 've got a book somewhere here that you may like to see , '' said the oldest boy of the party , diving under the seat and producing a book which make Dan exclaim , `` Oh ! by George , is n't that a stunner ? '' as he turned the leaves , and saw fine plates of butterflies , and birds , and every sort of interesting insect , colored like life . He was so charmed that he forgot his thanks , but Mr. Laurie did not mind , and was quite satisfied to see the boy 's eager delight , and to hear this exclamations over certain old friends as he came to them . Nat leaned on his shoulder to look , and Demi turned his back to the horses , and let his feet dangle inside the carriage , so that he might join in the conversation .
When they got among the beetles , Mr. XXXXX took a curious little object out of his vest-pocket , and laying it in the palm of his hand , said , `` There 's a beetle that is thousands of years old ; '' and then , while the lads examined the queer stone-bug , that looked so old and gray , he told them how it came out of the wrappings of a mummy , after lying for ages in a famous tomb .
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