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rty remained for some days at Cher-ing which time they rode and rambled the town and the environs again and il they had become quite familiar with place. Grimkie and John, in fact, to see the Digue. They employed a o take them out. They were very de

Mrs. Morelle and Florence should go s it was a two miles' sail in a sail boat of expedition which neither Mrs. MoFlorence were inclined to fancy-the alone.

mey came back they reported that they delightful time. They landed upon and walked upon it a long way. a broad space, forming a sort of roadLe top, and a parapet wall, immensely The outside of it, made to protect the oth from the sea and from bombs and against the Digue from enemies' ships g. There were places where the boys

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When at length the visit to Cherbourg v finished, the party left the hotel early one mo ing and proceeded by the train back on the ro by which they came as far as to the junction the St. Lo branch. Here they left the tra and passing across a broad platform they to their places in a carriage of another train mark for St. Lo. After proceeding on the branch ro for about an hour, they arrived at St. Lo, whi was the end of the line.

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"Now," said Grimkie, as they were ridi away from the station toward the hotel, have done with the railroad for a long tin We must go by the rest of the way to the sea a diligence, and then we shall have three voyag to make by sea before we shall see a railway st tion again."

"Ah me!" said Mrs. Morelle. "I dread t sea voyages."

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But, Auntie," said Grimkie, "they will very short; and besides, we shall wait at ea place for pleasant weather and a smooth sea." St. Lo proved to be an exceedingly picturesq

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buy a pair of those wooden shoes," - "and carry them home for a curiuld think of anything to do with

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"Or you might make a match box of it," sa John. "You might keep the matches insid and have a piece of sandpaper glued upon t sole, underneath, to rub the matches upon." "Or a money box," said Grimkie. them would be excellent to keep small change in a drawer."

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Mrs. Morelle, who heard this conversatio asked Grimkie whether he really could smoo and polish one of the shoes so as to make pretty, and he replied that he could do so wit out any difficulty. "I should get a pair of t brown kind," said he, "and rub them smoo with fine sandpaper, and then polish them wi French polish."

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