The people build 'pikes instead of what are called
dirt roads. There are, of course, many muddy lanes and by-ways. But
they have some of the best drives which have been lifted out of the
Mississippi Valley.
Though the small caravan had lost time, and Son Tip might be waiting
at the Illinois line before they reached that point, Grandma Padgett
said they would all go to morning meeting in the town where they
stopped Saturday night, and only drive a short piece on Sunday
afternoon. She hated to be on expense, but they had much to return
thanks for; and the Israelites made Sabbath day's journeys when they
were moving.
The first Sunday--which seemed so remote now--had been partially
spent in a grove where they camped for dinner, and Grandma Padgett
read the Bible, and made Bobaday and Corinne answer their catechism.
But this June Sunday was to be of a thanksgiving character. And they
spent it in Greenfield.
At Cambridge City little Carrie roused sufficiently to eat with
evident relish. But no such recollection of Dublin, Jamestown called
Jimtown for short, by some inhabitants, and only distinguished by its
location from another Jamestown in the State---Knightstown and
Charlottesville, remained to her as remained to Bobaday and Corinne.
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