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 Road , even if no Enderly Roader were by to feel the sting . Enderly Road was a miserable little settlement straggling back from Blackburn Hill . It was a forsaken looking place , and the people , as a rule , were poor and shiftless . Between Blackburn Hill and Enderly Road very little social intercourse existed and , as the Road people resented what they called the pride of Blackburn Hill , there was a good deal of bad feeling between the two districts . Presently Frank and I came out on the Enderly Road .
We sat XXXXX the fence a few minutes to rest and discuss our route home .
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