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to peek over. It was a long drop to the turbulent sea dashing

against the bold rocks. The green was as pure as new spring
leaves.

bl . Teddy stood up tall with his hands on his hips, the wind
OWIng through his hair. "I'm sure that's exactly the color

~reen mother wants for the carpeting in our summer home."
id looked out to sea, as we glanced at one another and

no ded with tongues in cheeks as if to say, "Yes, that
would be very nice, I'm sure."

T'h That night in the rain we came into the little town of
.urso. The only place we could find to stay was at a

~rlvate home with rooms for tourists. It was the off-season
Tut the Owners greeted us kindly and agreed to let us stay.
thed~y c~me in for the customary Scottish evening talk about

e fireside, but insisted on sleeping in the car in order to
save money.

The next morning Teddy had to do a lot of stretching to

~t untangled from the tortures of sleeping in a small car .

.1e traveled through moor after moor that day, and Teddy's
I IUS.lons grew more and more frequent.
It was here we

needed a chauffer and there a larger car. At lunch cloth
napk.·Ins would have been better, and that afternoon the wild

pwo.nies we saw were almost as pretty as hiIS rlidmi g horses.

e Just let the remarks pass unnoticed outwardly. He never

:en~ioned .his family other than to say that they dis appr-oved

his leavIng, considering all he had to do now that sprmg

Was here. We could understand that there would surely be

tc lot to do on a farm in the spring time, but we were glad

o have Teddy with us.

. . That night we offered to pay for his lodging, but he

Insisted that he would be fine in the car, and that this was

good for him. When we came to wake him, we found him
Hasl eep I.n a fisherman's boat which had been pulled up on ~hor~.

e Was curled up awkwardly in the anchor chamber with his

:attered bed roll carelessly over him. "It was much warmer

In here," he insisted when we woke him. The innkeeper

treated him to a breakfast of hot porridge without taking" No" for

an answer.

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