You must, therefore, live here as my children, and you must call
yourselves by the name of Armitage, and not that of Beverley; and you
must dress like children of the forest, as you do now, and you must do
as children of the forest do--that is, you must do every thing for
yourselves, for you can have no servants to wait upon you. We must all
work--but you will like to work if you all work together, for then the
work will be nothing but play. Now, Edward is the oldest, and he must
go out with me in the forest, and I must teach him to kill deer and
other game for our support; and when he knows how, then Humphrey shall
come out and learn how to shoot."
"Yes," said Humphrey, "I'll soon learn."
"But not yet, Humphrey, for you must do some work in the mean time;
you must look after the pony and the pigs, and you must learn to dig
in the garden with Edward and me when we do not go out to hunt; and
sometimes I shall go by myself, and leave Edward to work with you when
there is work to be done. Alice, dear, you must, with Humphrey, light
the fire and clean the house in the morning. Humphrey will go to the
spring for water, and do all the hard work; and you must learn to
wash, my dear Alice--I will show you how; and you must learn to get
dinner ready with Humphrey, who will assist you; and to make the beds.
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