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It was on a dull and cold morning in February, that Jessie Hapley, a girl between fourteen and fifteen years old, stood before a window in the farm-house of Mrs. Page, watching a couple of boys who were drawing a sled on which was lashed a trunk. The sled dragged heavily through the new-fallen snow, and when yet some distance off, the cord by which it was drawn suddenly snapped asunder. After a few moments' delay, the boys took a position behind their load, and pushed it along to its destination, without meeting with any further obstacles.
"Where will you have it, Jessie-up in your chamber? " inquired the oldest boy, as he and his companion landed the trunk in the entry.