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And now at last it was Monday, and here the five children were with the dishes and other chores out of the way and Grannie established at the parlor table just inside the front window with a particularly hard jigsaw puzzle that should keep her out of harm's way for half an hour, at least. And the time was ripe, and it was Susan's turn. "No dragons," she repeated, "and no witches. " "Tame is blah," said Fredericka. "Maybe tame isn't what I mean," said Susan, "but where at first everything starts out real and sort of daily.
But once he'd whispered the news that it was her turn next, she stayed awake thinking for a long time. The adventure with Grannie had been the best yet, maybe because part of it had been serious as well as fun.
Susan looked at John and John looked at Susan. Carl Ingoldsby had been the name of Grannie's husband, the grandfather Susan and John had never seen, who had died and been buried out on the Western plains long ago. And yet here he was, young and come a-courting, or at least a-rescuing! " shouted Carl Ingoldsby, just as snappily as Grannie had shouted at him. And somehow Grannie and all the children crowded into the sleigh. Carl Ingoldsby turned the horses, and they went trotting off into the whirling blackness.