"
Davy did not quite understand this, though he thought it pretty;
but Lyddy's husband did, and when the boy went back to his books,
he took his wife in his arms and kissed her twice,--once for herself,
and then once again.
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THE EVENTFUL TRIP OF THE MIDNIGHT CRY.
In the little villages along the Saco River,
in the year 1850 or thereabouts, the arrival and departure
of the stage-coach was the one exciting incident of the day.
It did not run on schedule time in those days, but started
from Limington or Saco, as the case might be, at about or
somewhere near a certain hour, and arrived at the other end
of the route whenever it got there. There were no trains to meet
(the railway popularly known as the "York and Yank'em" was not built
till 1862); the roads were occasionally good and generally bad;
and thus it was often dusk, and sometimes late in the evening,
when the lumbering vehicle neared its final destination
and drew up to the little post-offices along the way.
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