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 Mehitable. "I like not to be caught in the woods thus!"

"What mean ye?" Mehitable's heart began to flutter. There was something ominous in those flying figures which, little by little, gained upon the sled.

Charity's hand grasped Mehitable's arm through its thick fold of cape. "Think you our father fears Indians?" she whispered.

"Nay, not Indians, Cherry! I fear," Mehitable gave another terrified look at the rapidly approach ing horsemen, "I fear he thinks they be red-coats!"