Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: strength all the time, and at last she was ready. You should have heard them laugh when the great day came and they pulled out for Michigan—Mahng a little in the lead, as became the larger and stronger, and his new wife close behind. There had been nearly a week of cooler weather just before the start, which had delayed them a little, but now the south wind was blowing again, and over and over it seemed to say, " And we go, go, go away from here ! On the other side the world were overdue ! 'Send the road lies clear before you When the old Spring-fret comes o'er you, And the Red Gods call for you." And the road was clear, and they went. Up, and up, and up ; higher and higher, till straight ahead, stretching away to the very edge of the world, lay league after league of sunshine and air, only waiting the stroke of their wings. Now steady, steady ! Beat, beat, beat ! And the old earth sliding southward fifty miles an hour ! No soaring—their wings were too short for that sort of work—and no quick wheeling to right or left, but hurtling on with whizzing pinions and eager eyes, straight toward the goal. Was it any wonder that they werehappy, and that joyful shouts and wild peals of laughter came ringing down from the sky to tell us poor earth- bound men and women that somewhere up in the blue, beyond the reach of our short-sighted eyes, the loons were hurrying home ? Over the fresh fields, green with the young wheat ; over the winding rivers and the smiling lakes ; over the —shut your eyes, and dream a little while, and see if you can imagine what it was like. Does it make you wish you were a loon yourself ? Never mind ; some day, perhaps, we too shall take our wedding-journeys in the air ; not on feathered pinions, but with throbbing engines and whizzing wheels, and with a...