The Argosy — page 237: what you’re looking at

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220 Among the Welsh. living there for any number of years, she was about to give up all and depart for America, simply because friends had written home that they wanted her. She was a Welshwoman, and spoke English with a very pretty accent. ‘‘ Maybe,” she said, whilst bustling about and spreading the festive though frugal board, ‘I ought to have gone years ago, when I was a younger woman. Old trees, it is said, don’t bear trans- 2 As —= = AM MW yo We SESS: B36 SOR 2a. = = FAIRY GLEN. planting. But I’ve plenty of courage and spirit, and I don’t fear. My passage is taken and my berth chosen, and I’ve some one to meet me at the other end of the journey.” And spirit she certainly had, and evidently a temperament to make the best of things, and no doubt she would get on in the New World. But it was a bold under- taking on the part of a woman no longer in her first youth. I think her cheerfulness must have influenced the weather. Suddenly, without warning, the rain ceased, the clouds dispersed, out came sunshine and blue sky. Nothing could have been more wel- come; and from Stormy, one’s spirits went up, with the glass, to Set EOMIGIOOKS (E(0)