I must remember it was only the locomotive, and it was obliged
to do those disagreeable things to make the cars go faster'n, faster'n,
faster'n------
How much faster I did not have time to find out, for Uncle Dan just
then called to get me. A light cover with a hole in the top was
slipped over my cage, and I started on my journey. Of my trip, of
course, I knew nothing. Part of the way we rode in a wagon through the
country to the station where we took the train, but as Uncle Dan did
not remove my cover in the railway car the time spent on the journey
was almost a blank to me.
Right glad was I, after what seemed a long, long time of jarring and
jolting, to find the cage once more swinging from his hand and to hear
the click of his boot heels on the pavements as we went through the
streets of the town where Polly lived.
CHAPTER X
A NEW HOME
Should it happen that the last egret is shot and the last bird of
paradise is snared to adorn a lady's dress, then--then I would not like
to be a woman for all that earth could hold.--_Herbert O. Ward._
When at last my covering was removed I found myself in a large, long
room, which I afterward learned was a millinery store. In fact the
store was the front part of the family residence, the living rooms
being behind and upstairs over it.
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