in august, the days were so hot that Laura and Mary took their walks in the early mornings before the sun had risen far. the air still had some freshness then and it was not too hot to be pleasant. but every walk seemed like a little bit of the last walk they would have together, for soon Mary was going away.
she was really going to college, that fall. they has look forward, so long to her going. that now went she really was going, it did not seem possible. it was hard to imagine, too, because none of then knew what college would be like; they had never seen one. but Pa had earn nearly a hundred dollars that spring; the garden and the oats and the corn were growing marvelously, and Mary really could go to college.