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How Buddie came to be whisked away from Beavertown to a part of the / wood that, so far as she could tell, she had never seen before, remains / to this day a mystery.
"It was the echo," she said, in telling me the tale; "you just couldn't / help looking up. " Certainly it must have been a remarkable echo; and / although it does not explain the matter entirely to my satisfaction, it / is as convincing as any explanation I can offer. But, to go on with the / story: