Chapter 2 - Frequency Distributions and Graphs

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EXERCISE SET 2-1
1. Frequency distributions are used to 8.continued
Width œ 31 ƒ 5 œ 6.2 or 7
organize data in a meaningful way, to Limits Boundaries f
facilitate computational procedures for 21 - 27 20.5 - 27.5 6
statistics, to make it easier to draw charts 28 - 34 27.5 - 34.5 9
and graphs, and to make comparisons among 35 - 41 34.5 - 41.5 5
different sets of data. 42 - 48 41.5 - 48.5 7
49 - 55 48.5 - 55.5 3
2. Categorical distributions are used with 30
nominal or ordinal data, ungrouped
distributions are used with data having a
cf
small range, and grouped distributions are
Less than 20.5 0
used when the range of the data is large.
Less than 27.5 6
Less than 34.5 15
3.
(! Less than 41.5 20

a. 31.5 38.5ß $# $) œ œ 35ß38.5

# # Less than 48.5 27
31.5 œ ( Less than 55.5 30
"!% "*!

b. 85.5 104.5ß )' # œ #

œ 95ß
104.5 85.5 œ "* 9. H œ 325 L œ 165
")!!

c. 894.5 905.5ß )*& # *!& œ #

œ 900ß Range œ 325 165 œ 160
905.5 894.5 œ "" Width œ 160 ƒ 8 œ 20 round up to 21
"#Þ$ "$Þ& #&Þ)
d. 12.25 13.55ß #
œ #
œ 12.9ß
13.55 12.25 œ 1.3 Limits Boundaries f
"%
165 - 185 164.5 - 185.5 4
$Þ") %Þ*' œ
e. 3.1753.175
4.965 4.965ß
œ 1.79#
)Þ
# œ 4.07ß 186 - 206 185.5 - 206.5 6
207 - 227 206.5 - 227.5 15
4. Five to twenty classes. Width should be 228 - 248 227.5 - 248.5 13
an odd number so that the midpoint will 249 - 269 248.5 - 269.5 9
have the same place value as the data. 270 - 290 269.5 - 290.5 1
291 - 311 290.5 - 311.5 1
5. ne3c1e2ss-a3r3y2to a3c1c1o.m od a t e a
5 - 3 3 2 .5 ll the1d
b. Class limits overlap, and class
a. Class width is not uniform. width is not uniform.
c. A class has been omitted.
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 Chapter 2 - Frequency Distributions and Graphs
d. Class width is not uniform. ata.

6. An open-ended frequency distributionhas 7. Class Tally f Percent

either a first class with no lower limit or a
A 4 10%
last class with no upper limit. They are
M 28 70%
H 6 15%
S 2 5%
40 100%

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8. H œ 52 L œ 21 50
Range œ 52 21 œ 31
A peak occurs in class 207 - 227. There are
no empty classes. Each of the three highest
classes has one data value.

cf
Less than 164.5 0
Less than 185.5 4
Less than 206.5 10
Less than 227.5 25
Less than 248.5 38
Less than 269.5 47
Less than 290.5 48
Less than 311.5 49
Less than 332.5 50

10. H œ 110 L œ 54
Range œ 110 54 œ 56
Width œ 56 ƒ 7 œ 8 round up to 9

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10. continued 12. continued

Limits Boundaries f Limits Boundaries f

54 - 62 53.5 - 62.5 7 5427 - 17,733 5426.5 - 17,733.5 17
63 - 71 62.5 - 71.5 6 17,734 - 30,040 17,733.5 - 30,040.5 1
72 - 80 71.5 - 80.5 8 30,041 - 42,347 30,040.5 - 42,347.5 1
81 - 89 80.5 - 89.5 4 42,348 - 54,654 42,347.5 - 54,654.5 1
90 - 98 89.5 - 98.5 1 54,655 - 66,961 54,654.5 - 66,961.5 1
99 - 107 98.5 - 107.5 3 66,962 - 79,268 66,961.5 - 79,268.5 1
108 - 116 107.5 - 116.5 1 79,269 - 91,575 79,268.5 - 91,575.5 3
30 25

cf The majority of the data values are in the

Less than 53.5 0 lowest class. There are no empty classes in
Less than 62.5 7 the distribution.
Less than 71.5 13

Less than 80.5 21 cf

Less than 89.5 25 Less than 5426.5 0
Less than 98.5 26 Less than 17,733.5 17
Less than 107.5 29 Less than 30,040.5 18
Less than 116.5 30 Less than 42,347.5 19
Less than 54,654.5 20

11. H œ 780 L œ 746 Less than 66,961.5 21

Range œ 780 746 œ 34 Less than 79,268.5 22
Width œ 34 ƒ 5 œ 6.8 round up to 7 Less than 91,575.5 25

Limits Boundaries f 13. H œ 70 L œ 27

746 - 752 745.5 - 752.5 4 Range œ 70 27 œ 43

753 - 759 752.5 - 759.5 6 Width œ 43 ƒ 7 œ 6.1 or 7
760 - 766 759.5 - 766.5 8
767 - 773 766.5 - 773.5 9 Limits Boundaries f
774 - 780 773.5 - 780.5 3 27 - 33 26.5 - 33.5 7
30 34 - 40 33.5 - 40.5 14
41 - 47 40.5 - 47.5 15
cf 48 - 54 47.5 - 54.5 11
Less than 745.5 0 55 - 61 54.5 - 61.5 3

Less than 752.5 4 62 - 68 61.5 - 68.5 3

Less than 759.5 10 69 - 75 68.5 - 75.5 2
Less than 766.5 18 55
Less than 773.5 27
Less than 780.5 30 cf
Less than 26.5 0
12. H œ 91,570 L œ 5427 Less than 33.5 7
Range œ 91,570 5427 œ 86,143 Less than 40.5 21

Width œ 86,143 ƒ 7 œ 12,306.1 Less than 47.5 36

Round up to 12,307 Less than 54.5 47
Less than 61.5 50
Less than 68.5 53
Less than 75.5 55

14. H œ 51.7 L œ 1.2

Range œ 51.7 1.2 œ 50.5
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Width œ 50.5 ƒ 5 œ 10.1 round up to 11

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14. continued 16. continued

Limits Boundaries f Limits Boundaries f
0 - 10 -0.5 - 10.5 7 140 - 230 139.5 - 230.5 11
11 - 21 10.5 - 21.5 6 231 - 321 230.5 - 321.5 5
22 - 32 21.5 - 32.5 2 322 - 412 321.5 - 412.5 4
33 - 43 32.5 - 43.5 0 413 - 503 412.5 - 503.5 4
44 - 54 43.5 - 54.5 1 504 - 594 503.5 - 594.5 4
16 595 - 685 594.5 - 685.5 1
686 - 776 685.5 - 776.5 0
cf 777 - 867 776.5 - 867.5 1
Less than -0.5 0 30
Less than 10.5 7
Less than 21.5 13 cf
Less than 32.5 15 Less than 139.5 0
Less than 43.5 15 Less than 230.5 11
Less than 54.5 16 Less than 321.5 16
Less than 412.5 20
15. H œ 635 L œ 6 Less than 503.5 24
Width œ 635 6 œ 629 Less than 594.5 28
Range œ 629 ƒ 5 œ 125.8 round up to 127 Less than 685.5 29
Less than 776.5 29
Limits Boundaries f Less than 867.5 30
6 - 132 5.5 - 132.5 16
133 - 259 132.5 - 259.5 3 17. H œ 123 L œ 77
260 - 386 259.5 - 386.5 0 Range œ 123 77 œ 46
387 - 513 386.5 - 513.5 0 Width œ 46 ƒ 7 œ 6.6 or 7
514 - 640 513.5 - 640.5 1
20 Limits Boundaries f
77 - 83 76.5 - 83.5 1
The greatest concentration of data values is 84 - 90 83.5- 90.5 1
in the lowest class. All but one of the data 91 - 97 90.5- 97.5 6
values are in the lowest two classes. There 98 - 104 97.5- 104.5 14
is one extremely large data value occurring 105 - 111 104.5 - 111.5 8
in the highest class. 112 - 118 111.5 - 118.5 1
119 - 125 118.5 - 125.5 1
cf 32
Less than 5.5 0
Less than 132.5 16 cf
Less than 259.5 19 Less than 76.5 0
Less than 386.5 19 Less than 83.5 1
Less than 513.5 19 Less than 90.5 2
Less than 640.5 20 Less than 97.5 8
Less than 104.5 22
16. H œ 857 L œ 140 Less than 111.5 30
Width œ 857 140 œ 717 Less than 118.5 31
Range œ 717 ƒ 8 œ 89.6 or 91 Less than 125.5 32

18.
H œ 31.5 L œ 7.5
Range œ 31.5 7.5 œ 24
Width œ 24 ƒ 5 œ 4.8 or 5

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18. continued 2.
Limits Boundaries f Limits Boundaries f
7.5 - 12.4 7.45 - 12.45 1 70 - 116 69.5 - 116.5 5
12.5 - 17.4 12.45 - 17.45 4 117 - 163 116.5 - 163.5 9
17.5 - 22.4 17.45 - 22.45 10 164 - 210 163.5 - 210.5 6
22.5 - 27.4 22.45 - 27.45 6 211 - 257 210.5 - 257.5 6
27.5 - 32.4 27.45 - 32.45 4 258 - 304 257.5 - 304.5 0
25 305 - 351 304.5 - 351.5 1
352 - 398 351.5 - 398.5 1
cf 28
Less than 7.45 0
Less than 12.45 1 cf
Less than 17.45 5 Less than 69.5 0
Less than 22.45 15 Less than 116.5 5
Less than 27.45 21 Less than 163.5 14
Less than 32.45 25 Less than 210.5 20
Less than 257.5 26

19. The percents add up to 101%. They Less than 304.5 26

should total 100% unless rounding was used. Less than 351.5 27
Less than 398.5 28
EXERCISE SET 2-2

10
1.
8

50 6
frequency

40 4
30
20 2
10 0
0 69.5-116.5116.5-163.5163.5-210.5210.5-257.5257.5-304.5304.5-351.5351.5-398.5
89.5- 98.5- 107.5- 116.5- 125.5- Number of faculty
98.5 107.5 116.5 125.5 134.5
I.Q.

10

8
60
frequency
frequency

6
40
4
20
0 2

85 94 103 112 121 130 139 0

93 140 187 234 281 328 375
I.Q.
Number of faculty

120
cumulative frequency

30
cumulative frequency

100
25
80
60 20
40 15
20
10
0
89.5 98.5 107.5 116.5 125.5 134.5 5

I.Q. 0
69.5 116.5 163.5 210.5 257.5 304.5 351.5 398.5
Number of faculty
Eighty applicants do not need to enroll in the
summer programs.
"# œ 0.429 or 42.9% have 180 or more.
#)
The histogram and frequency polygon are
positively skewed.

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3. 4.
Limits Boundaries f 14

3 - 45 2.5 - 45.5 19 12

10
46 - 88 45.5 - 88.5 19

frequency
8

89 - 131 88.5 - 131.5 10 6

132 - 174 131.5 - 174.5 1 4

2
175 - 217 174.5 - 217.5 0 0
39.85-42.85 42.85-45.85 45.85-48.85 48.85-51.85 51.85-54.85 54.85-57.85
218 - 260 217.5 - 260.5 1 Millions of Dolla rs

50
14

cf 12

10
Less than 2.5 0

frequency
8
Less than 45.5 19 6

Less than 88.5 38 4

Less than 131.5 48 2

0
Less than 174.5 49 38.35 41.35 44.35 47.35 50.35 53.35 56.35 59.35

Less than 217.5 49 Millions of Dollars

Less than 260.5 50

35

30

cumulative frequency
20 25

20
15
15
frequency

10 10

5
5
0
38.85 42.85 45.85 48.85 51.85 54.85 57.85
0
Millions of Dollars
2.5-45.5 45.5-88.5 88.5-131.5 131.5-174.5 174.5-217.5 217.5-260.5
Counties, parishes, or divisions
The distribution is left skewed or negatively
The distribution is positively skewed. skewed.

5.
20
Limits Boundaries f
15
1 - 43 0.5 - 43.5 24
frequency

10
44 - 86 43.5 - 86.5 17
5
87 - 129 86.5 - 129.5 3
0
24 67 110 153 196 239 130 - 172 129.5 - 172.5 4

Counties, parishes, or divisions 173 - 215 172.5 - 215.5 1

216 - 258 215.5 - 258.5 0
60
259 - 301 258.5 - 301.5 0
302 - 344 301.5 - 344.5 1
cumulative frequency

50
40 50
30
20
10 cf
0
2.5 45.5 88.5 131.5 174.5 217.5 260.5
Less than 0.5 0
Counties, parishes, or divisions Less than 43.5 24

Less than 86.5 41

Less than 129.5 44
Less than 172.5 48
Less than 215.5 49
Less than 258.5 49
Less than 301.5 49
Less than 344.5 50

The distribution is positively skewed.

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5. continued 6. continued
30
20
25
Frequency 20 15

Frequency
15

10 10

0 5
0.5 -43 .5 43.5-8 6.5 86 .5-129 .5 129 .5 -17 2.5 172 .5 -21 5.5 215 .5 -25 8.5 258 .5 -3 01 .5 30 1.5-3 44 .5

Accidents
0
5.5-8.5 8.5-11.5 11.5-14.5 14.5-17.5 17.5-20.5 20.5-23.5 23.5-26.5

30 Costs of utilities
25
Frequency

20
15
20
10
15

Frequency
5
0 10
22 65 108 151 194 237 280 323
5
Accidents
0
7 10 13 16 19 22 25
Costs of utilities
Cumulative Frequency

60
50
40
30 35

Cumulative frequency
20 30
10 25
0 20

0.5 43.5 86.5 129.5 172.5 215.5 258.5 301.5 344.5 15

Accide nts 10
5
0
5.5 8.5 11.5 14.5 17.5 20.5 23.5 26.5

6. Costs of utilities

Limits Boundaries f
6-8 5.5 - 8.5 12
9 - 11 8.5 - 11.5 16 7.
12 - 14 11.5 - 14.5 3 Limits Boundaries f (1998) f (2003)
15 - 17 14.5 - 17.5 1 0 - 22 -0.5 - 22.5 18 26
18 - 20 17.5 - 20.5 0 23 - 45 22.5 - 45.5 7 1
21 - 23 20.5 - 23.5 0 46 - 68 45.5 - 68.5 3 0
24 - 26 23.5 - 26.5 1 69 - 91 68.5 - 91.5 1 1
33 92 - 114 91.5 - 114.5 1 0
115 - 137 114.5 - 137.5 0 1
cf 138 - 160 137.5 - 160.5 0 1
Less than 5.5 0 30 30
Less than 8.5 12
Less than 11.5 28
Less than 14.5 31
Less than 17.5 32
Less than 20.5 32
Less than 23.5 32
Less than 26.5 33

The distribution is positively skewed.

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7. continued 9.
Limits Boundaries f
20
frequency
15
83.1 - 90.0 83.05 - 90.05 3
10
90.1 - 97.0 90.05 - 97.05 5
5 97.1 - 104.0 97.05 - 104.05 6
0 104.1 - 111.0 104.05 - 111.05 7
-0.5- 22.5- 45.5- 68.5- 91.5- 114.5- 137.5-
22.5 45.5 68.5 91.5 114.5 137.5 160.5
111.1 - 118.0 111.05 - 118.05 3
Days 1998 118.1 - 125.0 118.05 - 125.05 1
25
30
25
frequency

20 Less than 83.05 cf0

15
10 Less than 90.05 3
5
0
Less than 97.05 8
-0.5- 22.5- 45.5- 68.5- 91.5- 114.5- 137.5- Less than 104.05 14
22.5 45.5 68.5 91.5 114.5 137.5 160.5 Less than 111.05 21
Days 2003 Less than 118.05 24
Less than 125.05 25
Both distributions are positively skewed,but
the data are somewhat more spread out in
8
the first three classes in 1998 than in 2003.

frequency
6
There are two large data values in the 2003 4
data. 2
0

8. 83.05- 90.05- 97.05- 104.05- 111.05- 118.05-

90.05 97.05 104.05 111.05 118.05 125.05

12 Scores
10
frequency

8
6
4 8
2
6
frequency

0
2.25- 2.95- 3.65- 4.35- 5.05- 5.75- 4
2.95 3.65 4.35 5.05 5.75 6.45 2

Time 0
86.55 93.55 100.55 107.55 114.55 121.55
Scores
15
frequency

10

5 30
frequency

0 20
1.9 2.6 3.3 4.0 4.7 5.4 6.1 6.8
10
Time
0
83.05 90.05 97.05 104.05 111.05 118.05 125.05
Scores
cumulative frequency

50
40
30
20
10 10.
0

2.25 2.95 3.65 4.35 5.05 5.75 6.45 20

frequency

Time 15
10
5
The data values fall somewhat on the left 0
side of the distribution. The histogram is 17.5 - 22.5 - 27.5 - 32.5 - 37.5 - 42.5 -
22.5 27.5 32.5 37.5 42.5 47.5
right skewed. There are no gaps in the
% At or Above Reading Level
histogram.
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10. continued 11. continued

20 12

frequency
15

Frequency
8
10 6
4
5
0
0
17.5 - 22.5 - 27.5 - 32.5 - 37.5 - 42.5 - 139.5- 230.5- 321.5- 412.5- 503.5- 594.5- 685.5- 776.5-
22.5 27.5 32.5 37.5 42.5 47.5 230.5 321.5 412.5 503.5 594.5 685.5 776.5 867.5

% At or Above Math Level Unclaimed prizes

The distribution of math percentages is more 12

bell-shaped than the distribution of reading 10

Frequency
percentages, and its peak in the class of 8
6
32.5 37.5 is not as high as the peak of the 4
reading percentages. 2
0
185 276 367 458 549 640 731 822
11.
Unclaimed prizes
Limits Boundaries f
140 - 230 139.5 - 230.5 11
231 - 321 230.5 - 321.5 5 35

Cumulative frequency
30
322 - 412 321.5 - 412.5 4 25
413 - 503 412.5 - 503.5 4 20
15
504 - 594 503.5 - 594.5 4
10
595 - 685 594.5 - 685.5 1 5

686 - 776 685.5 - 776.5 0 0

139.5 230.5 321.5 412.5 503.5 594.5 685.5 776.5 867.5
777 - 867 776.5 - 867.5 1 Unclaimed prizes
30
cf 12.
Less than 139.5 0 12

10
Less than 230.5 11
Frequency

Less than 321.5 16 6

4
Less than 412.5 20 2
0
Less than 503.5 24 7.45-12.45 12.45-17.45 17.45-22.45 22.45-27.45 27.45-32.45

Less than 594.5 28 State Gasoline Tax

Less than 685.5 29

Less than 776.5 29
Less than 867.5 30 The histogram shows that state gasoline
The distribution is positively skewed. taxes
the are somewhat
middle normal with the peak in
of the graph.

13.
relative frequency

0.4
0.3
0.2
0.1
0
89.5- 98.5- 107.5- 116.5- 125.5-
98.5 107.5 116.5 125.5 134.5
I. Q.

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13. continued 14. continued

0.6

relative frequency
0.4
0.5
0.3

Frequency
0.2 0.4

0.1 0.3

0 0.2

85 94 103 112 121 130 139 0.1

0
I. Q. 0.5-43.5 43.5-86.5 86.5-129.5 129.5-172.5 172.5-215.5 215.5-258.5 258.5-301.5 301.5-344.5

Accidents
cumulative relative

1
0.8 0.6
frequency

0.6 0.5

Frequency
0.4 0.4
0.3
0.2
0.2
0
0.1
89.5 98.5 107.5 116.5 125.5 134.5
0
I. Q. 22 65 108 151 194 237 280 323
Accidents

The proportion of applicants who need to

enroll in a summer program is 0.26 or 26%. 1.2

Cumulative frequency
1
0.8
14. 0.6
Limits Boundaries rf 0.4
0.2
1 - 43 0.5 - 43.5 0.48 0
0.5 43.5 86.5 129.5 172.5 215.5 258.5 301.5 344.5
44 - 86 43.5 - 86.5 0.34
Accidents
87 - 129 86.5 - 129.5 0.06
130 - 172 129.5 - 172.5 0.08
173 - 215 172.5 - 215.5 0.02 15. H œ 270 L œ 80
216 - 258 215.5 - 258.5 0 Range œ 270 80 œ 190
259 - 301 258.5 - 301.5 0 Width œ 190 ƒ 7 œ 27.1 or 28
302 - 344 301.5 - 344.5 0.02 Use width œ 29 (rule 2)

crf Limits Boundaries f rf

Less than 0.5 0 80 - 108 79.5 - 108.5 8 0.17
Less than 43.5 0.48 109 - 137 108.5 - 137.5 13 0.28
Less than 86.5 0.82 138 - 166 137.5 - 166.5 2 0.04
Less than 129.5 0.88 167 - 195 166.5 - 195.5 9 0.20
Less than 172.5 0.96 196 - 224 195.5 - 224.5 10 0.22
Less than 215.5 0.98 225 - 253 224.5 - 253.5 2 0.04
Less than 258.5 0.98 254 - 282 253.5 - 282.5 2 0.04
Less than 301.5 0.98 0.99*
Less than 344.5 1.00
*due to rounding
Of the states 82% have fewer than 87
accidents per year. crf
Less than 79.5 0.00
Less than 108.5 0.17
Less than 137.5 0.45
Less than 166.5 0.49
Less than 195.5 0.69
Less than 224.5 0.91
Less than 253.5 0.95
Less than 282.5 0.99

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15. continued 16. continued

0.3 0.45
0.4
0.25

relative freq uency

relative f req uency

0.35
0.2 0.3
0.15 0.25
0.2
0.1
0.15
0.05 0.1

0
0.05
79. 5- 10 8.5 108.5 -137.5 137. 5- 166.5 1 66.5- 195.5 195.5-224.5 224.5- 25 3.5 153.5-282.5 0
11.5-19.5 19.5-27.5 27.5-35.5 35.5-43.5 43.5-51.5 51.5-59.5
Calo ries
Grams

0.3

0.25 0.45
relative freq uency

0.2 0.4
0.35

relative frequency
0.15
0.3
0.1 0.25
0.05 0.2
0
0.15
65 94 123 152 181 210 239 268 297 0.1
0.05
Calories
0
7.5 15.5 23.5 31.5 39.5 47.5 55.5 63.5

1.2 Grams
cumulative relative frequency

0.8

cumulative relative
1.2
0.6

frequency
1
0.4
0.8
0.2
0.6
0 0.4
79.5 108.5 137.5 166.5 195.5 224.5 253.5 282.5
0.2
Calories
0
11.5 19.5 27.5 35.5 43.5 51.5 59.5
Grams

The histogram has two peaks.

The histogram is positively skewed.
16.
H œ 57 L œ 12 17.

Width œ 45 ƒ 6 œ 7.5 or 8 -0.5 - 27.5 0.87

27.5 - 55.5 0.03
Limits Boundaries f rf 55.5 - 83.5 0.00
12 - 19 11.5 - 19.5 7 0.175 83.5 - 111.5 0.03
20 - 27 19.5 - 27.5 17 0.425 111.5 - 139.5 0.00
28 - 35 27.5 - 35.5 10 0.25 139.5 - 167.5 0.03
36 - 43 35.5 - 43.5 4 0.10 167.5 - 195.5 0.03
44 - 51 43.5 - 51.5 1 0.025 0.99
52 - 59 51.5 - 59.5 1 0.025
40 1.000 crf
Less than -0.5 0.00
crf Less than 27.5 0.87
Less than 11.5 0.000 Less than 55.5 0.90
Less than 19.5 0.175 Less than 83.5 0.90
Less than 27.5 0.600 Less than 111.5 0.93
Less than 35.5 0.850 Less than 139.5 0.93
Less than 43.5 0.950 Less than 167.5 0.96
Less than 51.5 0.975 Less than 195.5 0.99
Less than 59.5 1.000

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17. continued 18. continued
1
Based on the histograms, the older dogs
0.9 have longer reaction times. Also, the
0.8
Frequency
0.7 reaction times for older dogs is more
0.6 variable.
0.5
0.4 Limits Boundaries Xm f
0.2
0.3
0.1
19.
22 - 24 21.5 - 24.5 23 1
0
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 “I would like to have a drink of good, cold water. I am a deal of
trouble, am I not?”
“If I were sick I would like some one to wait upon me,” I said, and
ran down stairs.—Ann was at the end of the garden, picking berries;
so I drew the water myself; and as I brought the bucket up to the
curb, the woman of Samaria came into my mind. If I could give any
such comfort of living water! Did I really desire to? So far I had done
barely what was required of me. It did not look half as enchanting as
reading to and amusing Miss Lucy Churchill. But wasn’t there a good
work in it as well?
I entered the room with a glass pitcher, through which the water
shone and sparkled. There was such a thirsty, longing look in his
eyes that I was glad to minister to him.
“Thank you a thousand times. I have been wanting that for the last
half hour.”
“Why did you not ring sooner?”
 Rose’s Visit to the Invalid. Page 121.

“You had a visitor; and I call for so many things. There appears to
be no end to my wants. I am ashamed of myself. But it is so tiresome
to lie here helpless.”
“What would be the next thing, if I were a fairy?” I asked,
laughingly.
Was it my mood that made him smile?
“There is a tantalizing smell of honeysuckle somewhere about.
Nay, don’t run down stairs again.”
“It is just on the porch.”
Mamma was emptying Miss Churchill’s basket. A bowl of custard,
a jar of wine jelly, fresh eggs, a great, creamy pot-cheese, and the
pears. I just took a whiff of the fragrance and passed on.
“Let me have a piece of it here in my hand.”
“How odd that you should be so fond of flowers!”
 “Is it? Sweet blooms only. May be you would not approve of such
a love. I like to crush them and have them about me. Not but what I
admire them in vases, too, but then they do not come into my very
life.”
“Or die for you.”
I had said it, and then I paused in a great tremble, thinking of the
other death that came through love, greater than which hath no man.
“Miss Endicott,” he said, slowly, “are you very religious?”
I colored, and turned my face away; then I thought of “confessing
before men.” What should make me afraid here, except the sense of
personal unworthiness?
“I try a little. I have not gone very far in the way.”
“I know some people who are very religious,” he went on, “and I—
dislike them. That was another reason why I did not want to come
here—because your father was a clergyman. But you always appear
to have such nice, enjoyable times. You talk over everything with him
and your mother.”
“Why should we not? It would be strange if they were not
interested in all that concerns us. And bringing home a bit of
pleasant talk or some bright and amusing incident is like adding a
sheaf to the general granary. Does it not seem as if each one ought
to contribute to the fund of happiness?”
“I suppose it is a good deal in the way you look at it. And the
having a home, may be.”
“Yes,” I said, “that is the great thing, or next to the having a
mother.”
“What if I were seized with a fit of confessing my sins? Would that
be added to the ‘general fund?’”
“I think we have all been brought up to respect a confidence,” I
answered, a trifle wounded. “But it would be better to confess them
to papa.”
 “I might not want to;” and he gave a short laugh that did not seem
at all natural. “In fact, there are very few people who suit me, or
attract me—the same can, doubtless, be said of me. Do you know—
and I have never owned it before in my life—I am sometimes jealous
of Stuart? Every one takes to him, likes him; and he is no better than
—other people. He is not always truthful; he is awfully selfish, and
heartless, too. Only he has that sunny, glowing way with him; and
most people are such fools that they cannot see through it. So he
gets credit for sweetness, when it is only—”
“A matter of temperament,” I returned, filling up the long pause.
“Exactly. Why cannot others understand that it is so?”
“Because nearly every one likes roses better than thorns. We
naturally shrink from a rough, prickly outside. No matter if the kernel
is sweet, every one, you know, cannot wait years and years for it to
open. And you seem to shut yourself up—”
“There is nothing to show, so I make no pretence,” he answered,
in a dry, hard tone.—“I hate froth, and all that.”
“Yet I suppose the waterfall is much prettier for the spray and
bubbles. Frail as they are, they reflect many beautiful tints. And I
suppose God could have made apples just as well without such
showers of fragrant blooms, and He may put some people in the
world for the sake of the blossom and the sweetness rather than the
fruit.”
“What an idea! I should think you would be educated to consider
the strictly useful.”
“But all things that God has made have their uses.”
“You keep to the text—that God does it all. It is a woman’s
province to believe, I fancy.”
There was a little sneer in that.
“Does unbelief render men so much happier that they love to cling
to it?” I asked.
 “Oh, they are dipping into science and philosophy, and see so
much more of the world,” he replied, loftily.
I turned to the window—and was silent.
“There!” he exclaimed, “I have vexed you.”
“No.” I returned, “I am not vexed. I only wish I knew the right words
to say to you; mamma might.”
“You are all very kind. I wonder that you were so good, when the
beginning was so unpromising. You must have thought us a couple
of brutes.”
“Stuart apologized handsomely to papa.”
“O, I dare say. He is up to that sort of dodge;” and a smile of scorn
curled his thin lip.
“I wish you loved your brothers better,” I could not forbear saying.
“It is their loss, no doubt.”
What could I do with him in such a mood? “Preaching,” as Fan
called it, was useless. Then I bethought myself of Miss Churchill’s
call, and told him what she had brought for him.
“And now,” I said, “it is time you had your supper. You must be
nearly starved.”
With that I ran down stairs. Yes, I did like bright, pleasant people.
Mamma’s cheery ways and papa’s sweetness were worth more than
doses of science and philosophy, since we have to live in a work-day
world, and cannot soar up to the clouds. It is just the every-day being
that is life, not the grand dreams that never come to pass.
I prepared the tray and took it, standing it on a table at the bed’s
side. When I returned the little group were in their accustomed
places, with papa ready to ask the blessing. I slipped quietly into the
circle.
When I went to bring the dishes down I remarked a peculiar
expression upon Louis’ face.
 “Miss Rose,” he began, “I want to know how it feels to be
generous; therefore I shall give you a holiday this evening. I must
resolve to stay alone now and then.”
“Are you quite sure—?”
“Quite;” and he waved his hand, smilingly.
I did want to go down to the store with Fan; so I was glad of the
permission. Stuart started to accompany us but two of the village
boys came to call on him. I was relieved, for I wanted to stop on the
way and see one of my Sunday School children.
Fan bought her braid, and we found the baby at the Day’s was
sick, and Betty had to stay at home to help take care of it. Poor thing,
how wild and wan it looked, so different from our rosy Edith.
Mrs. Day’s house was generally in disorder. She was a hard-
working woman in some respects, for she was always at it. Her
husband was a gardener and day-laborer, earning his twelve dollars
a week pretty regularly, and they owned a small cottage and garden,
that Mrs. Day senior had left them. Yet they always looked very poor.
“Yes,” Mrs. Day was saying, “I couldn’t spare Betty on Sunday.
Husband went over the river to see his cousin, and took little Jem. I’d
been hard at work all the week, and was clear beat out, up half the
night, too. And I don’t see as the baby gets a bit better. You don’t
know what it is to look after a baby all alone by yourself, and not
have a soul to raise a finger for you.”
“But Betty helps a good deal.” I returned, for I could not bear to
have the child so underrated.
“A girl like that can’t do much at the best. Now, if I had one or two
grown up, as your mother has!”
She always thought if she only had something another person
possessed, she should be happier. I wondered a little how she would
get along with mamma’s cares and worries, and sewing, to say
nothing of the demands from outside.
“Ask your ma if she cannot come over. Hardly a soul has been in,
and I can’t go anywhere for a bit of change. But poor people have to
do the best they can in trouble.”
I promised, and spoke a few words of cheer to sad-eyed Betty.
“That woman always does try me!” declared Fan. “If I was a
minister’s wife she would be a thorn in my side. How many poor,
inefficient people there are in this world, and the worst feature
appears to be their inability to learn anything! I do not believe they try
in good earnest.”
“Yet I feel sorry for her.”
“Well, yes, and the poor sick baby. But if her room had been
swept, her dishes taken to the kitchen, and her hair combed, and a
collar on, how it would have altered the aspect of the place! And she
seems to think every one else in the world has it so much easier.”
“This is one of the places where one must not weary in well-doing,
papa would say,” was my rejoinder.
“You are a good little girl, Rose. I have not half your faith or
patience. I wonder if I shall be of any real and sensible use in this
world?”
“You can try to-morrow. The house will be clean.”
“I am afraid I should not want to go, otherwise,” she returned,
laughingly.
The man came over for her the next morning, quite early, having
been to the village on business. We felt that she was going off in
state, but I suppose it was on account of its being the West Side and
the Churchills, for Fan somehow was fortunate in having plenty of
rides fall to her share. She uttered a laughing good-bye and they
drove away.
It seems odd how one event comes out of another, like the
wonderful Chinese transformations. You open a ball and the article
inside is one you would never have guessed at. You go to some
place, and one trifling incident changes the course of one’s whole
life, or a few words that some person utters carelessly brings about a
new train of thought and action, and your life is not quite the same
afterward.
 The Churchill mansion had a look of the old nobility. It was two
stories, with a great, double pitched roof, and wide, overhanging
eaves. Just the old fashion of white and green. But the blinds were
never faded, and the exterior never soiled. A porch on the front and
one side, upheld by square, white columns, and on the other side the
graveled roadway to the barn. A lawn in front, terraced twice, with
clumps of blossoming shrubs, or dainty beds cut out sharply in the
grass. For the house stood on a slight hill which gave it a still more
commanding appearance.
But around, just a trifle removed, to let in the sunshine, stood the
glory of it all. Great trees, elms, maples, a giant black-walnut,
hemlocks that must have grown nearly a hundred years, firs, spruce
and larches waving their long fringy arms. No modern sacrilegious
hands had come near to disturb them. Birds built in their branches
year after year, and the sunshine sifted through on the grass.
It was a warm morning and Miss Lucy’s reclining chair had been
wheeled out to the shady side of the porch. She was dressed in
white with pale pink roses in her hair and at her throat. Just turned of
thirty she had the Churchill maturity with a certain delicate
girlishness. You could imagine Miss Esther being a handsome and
stately old woman, but it seemed as if Miss Lucy must always stay
where she was.
Mr. Churchill came to help her out, Miss Esther welcomed her
warmly, and Lucy put forth her hand with a smile.
“I was afraid we might be too early, but Abner had to go over on
business, and we told him to wait if you were not ready. Did you
have a pleasant ride?”
“It is very kind of you to come. I hope I shall not tire you out before
the day is over,” said Miss Lucy.
“O, you will not, I am sure,” Fanny returned with her bright smile. “I
am delighted to come.”
“And the sewing?” Miss Churchill exclaimed.
“I did all the long seams last evening, and Rose is to bind my
trimming for me, but I am much obliged.”
 “What industrious girls you are. I am almost conscience smitten.
Are you quite sure you could be spared?”
“Yes, indeed. Don’t think of that please, Miss Churchill.”
“Will you sit here awhile? The air is so fresh and fragrant. The
greater part of my going out amounts to this only, so I am thankful for
the beautiful prospect. Look at those woods over there.”
Another knoll dark with evergreens as tall as those around the
house. At a little distance an adjoining hill, but in the level opening
between, there was a field of ripening wheat which looked like a
golden sea. Fan spoke of it.
“How odd,” returned Miss Lucy, “I have had the same thought
dozens of times in the last fortnight. I sometimes imagine that there
is a lovely undiscovered country just beyond, and what it is like. I am
glad that I cannot go out to discover it, that would take away half the
charm.”
Fanny smiled at the quaint conceit, so satisfying.
“And now tell me all about the children at home, and the sick
young man? What do you think Dr. Hawley said to me a few days
ago?—Miss Lucy, you need some one to bring you a good dish of
gossip.”
“Good gossip at that;” laughed Mr. Churchill with a humorous
twinkle in his eye. “If Miss Endicott does not acquit herself well, I’ll go
for some of the village cronies.”
“I’ll begin with the baby then,” and Fanny moved her seat a trifle.
“She is just the cunningest baby you ever saw. We were all smart
children, but she is a prodigy. She sits alone, and creeps a little
sideways, and when she gets in a glee, flaps her wings, i. e. her
arms, and crows.”
Mr. Churchill shook his head solemnly. “That will hardly do for a
girl,” he said, “and a clergyman’s daughter.”
“We think it best for her to do her crowing while she is small,” was
Fannie’s playful answer.
 She talked about the others—Fan had a way of brightening up
everything that was very amusing. Not that she ever made it out
better or worse—it was only the quaint touches of harmless
pleasantry.
Miss Lucy laughed softly and a pink tint came to her pale cheeks.
Miss Esther in the meanwhile made several journeys to and fro.
Mr. Churchill took up his paper and pretended to read, but his eyes
wandered to the fair young girl whose simple homelikeness was her
greatest charm. Presently the sun came around, and Miss Lucy’s
chair was wheeled to the sitting room, which was cool and shady.
All their entertainments were not kept for the great drawing-room.
Here were pictures, a well filled book-case, articles of virtu, a cabinet
of shells, minerals and precious stones, and portfolios of fine
engravings. Here an album filled with notable authors, artists and
musical people, another with eminent men of Europe, and
remarkable women. Fan had enough to entertain her there.
Suddenly a bell rang.
“This is the shortest morning that I have known for some time,”
exclaimed Miss Lucy. “It hardly seems possible that is the dinner
bell. We are old fashioned in our hour, you see.”
Fan was astonished as well. Mr. Churchill gave Lucy his arm, as
she could walk with a little assistance. Miss Esther led Fanny.
The dinner table was like a picture. The quaint old china, delicately
flowered, and the antique silver was set off by the snowy cloth and
the brilliant bouquets with trailing stems that looked as if they might
have grown in the vases. Fan enjoyed it all to the uttermost, and was
too happy to envy aught of it.
“You have been sitting up all the morning;” said Miss Churchill,
“and you do not look a bit tired now! Shall we give Miss Fanny the
credit?”
“I think she deserves it. Indeed I hardly noticed how the time
passed. You see I get so tired of staying alone, or talking over the
same old subjects with Essie.”
 “You are a grateful young woman I must say!” and Miss Churchill
laughed.
“Kenton, couldn’t we have a drive to Round Hill about sunset? I
think I could go.”
“What, more dissipation?”
“Please don’t undertake too much,” said Fanny. “I am well content
to stay here.”
“But the sunset is so lovely there.”
“You must have a good long rest;” said her sister, “and we will see
how you feel then.”
“I dare say Miss Endicott will be glad for I have kept her talking
steadily.”
“I am used to it,” laughed Fan, “and somehow I never understood
the charms of solitude, or perhaps was born incapable of
appreciating them.”
“There is no doubt of that;” Mr. Churchill returned with a quiet
smile.
They sat over their dessert a long while, talking of various subjects
that were exceedingly entertaining. The quiet and air of formal
courtesy that was far removed from stiffness, pleased and interested
Fanny greatly.
But Miss Churchill was inexorable afterward, and would not even
consent to Fan’s going up stairs with Lucy. Instead she took charge
of her and they inspected the house and the clean, fragrant dairy,
and lastly found themselves in Miss Churchill’s room. This was large
and airy, looking cool in its summer dress of matting and furniture of
cane or delicate chintz covers.
The visit was so different from the formal little calls that we had
been in the habit of making with either of our parents. Indeed, Fan
always declared that this day’s experience took her right into the
Churchills’ lives, and I think it did.
 A dress of fine white India muslin lay on Miss Churchill’s bed. At
least, the skirt which had three ruffles edged with delicate
needlework. The rest had been ripped apart and ironed out.
“Do you think it pretty?” asked Miss Churchill.
“It is lovely. What exquisite muslin! I wonder what makes these old
things so much more beautiful than what we have now?”
“They are neater and not so showy.”
“But this would be noticeable anywhere.”
“Yes, yet it has an air of quiet refinement. Twenty or thirty years
ago ladies bought dresses to keep, now they are unpardonably old
after one or two seasons, therefore it does not pay to make them so
elegant. My dear Miss Fanny, I may as well confess to a conspiracy.
I brought out a lot of old dresses yesterday—too pretty to give to the
absolute poor. I selected this and altered the skirt. It is all done but
the band. I did not know precisely what to do with the waist, so I shall
have to give you the material. And if you will accept these for
yourself and your sister—there is a great quantity in them, and you
will find it a nice, serviceable fabric, as it will save washing. Please
do not consider me officious.”
“Oh, Miss Churchill!” was all that Fan could say.
“This pine-apple will be good for afternoon wear, and I believe to
some extent in useful gifts. The other I wanted you to have because
it was so pretty. I have two more, which will last me my life time.”
“You are too generous! Oh, Miss Churchill, how can I thank you?”
“By wearing and enjoying them, my dear, and not having any fussy
feeling over them. Just as if they had come from an aunt, for
instance. I do not believe your mother will object. She is too truly a
lady to fancy that I desire to place you under any obligation.”
I should have stood silent and abashed. Fan did the best thing of
all, just clasped her arms around Miss Churchill’s neck and kissed
her for thanks.
 The stage came lumbering along at that moment. Miss Churchill
glanced out of the window with one arm still around Fanny.
“Of all things! Here is Winthrop Ogden looking too merry for any
misfortune. It is like him to take us so by surprise. My dear, I will run
down a moment.”
 CHAPTER VIII.

AN heard the sound of the voices without distinguishing

the words, and turned to an inspection of the dresses.
There was a dainty apron overskirt of the muslin, with
the same lovely ruffling around it, and plenty for the
waist and sleeves. The others were blue and white
striped, one very narrow, the other about an inch wide, with a kind of
embroidered figure in the stripe. The skirts were long and full, and
with one there was a mantle.
Miss Churchill returned presently.
“You have not mutinied in my absence, have you? My dear girl, I
do not want to place you under any obligation, yet I thought these
garments might be of some use to you and your sister. It would not
do to send them to the sewing society to be cut up for the very poor.
Don’t give yourself an anxious thought. Now go in to Lucy who is
waiting for you, and when she is ready you must come down stairs
and see our nephew.”
Miss Lucy was much rested. “I have had three or four naps which
did me a world of good;” she said. “You see I was very tired, and that
made me rest delightfully. All my good things come at once.
Winthrop is here.”
She looked bright and cheerful.
“Can I not do something for you?” asked Fanny. “I might brush
your hair, I often do mamma’s.”
“If it would not trouble you—Essie does it in the morning, and I
generally manage it in the afternoon. But I am afraid—”
“No,” returned Fan cordially, divining the delicate fear. She took up
the brush and soon had it in order.
Usually Miss Lucy walked about without any assistance, but being
somewhat weak now, she had to help herself with a cane which she
always kept in her room. Fan tried to anticipate her wants, and she
was ready so soon that she rang the bell for her brother, who came
to assist her down stairs.
“This is our nephew, Mr. Ogden;” announced Miss Churchill, “Miss
Endicott.”
Fan remembered seeing him at church occasionally. He was about
twenty-two, and had matured considerably in a year. He was
medium height, with a rather handsome, rollicking face. There was a
laugh in his hazel eyes, in his curly chestnut hair, and it seemed to
play hide and seek about his mouth, the upper lip being shaded by a
soft brown moustache.
“Ah, Miss Endicott,—though I ought to know you without a formal
presentation, only I could not save your life I suppose if I were not
introduced. How are you, Aunt Lucy? Why you have roses, actually! I
thought from Aunt Essie’s letter that you must be a pale shadow!”
“The roses are in your honor, and not very durable. I am glad to
see you, but oh how you have—changed!”
“For the better allow me to hope!”
She laughed. “But how did you come to take us so by surprise? I
thought you were at Newport.”
“I was yesterday. But I had to dance so much night before last,
that I was afraid of impairing my constitution. I began to sigh for
simple country life, and came hither, thinking of uncle Kenton’s
horses.”
“They are in a fine condition;” said Mr. Churchill.
“And I can have only a fortnight’s vacation now, so I mean to make
the most of it. The other two weeks will come in September.”
“Your mother and Helen—?”
“Are delightfully well and charmingly entertained—can you ask
more?”
He gave a droll little smile at this.
 We heard sometime afterward that Miss Ogden was engaged, and
her lover’s mother being very fond of her, they had gone to Newport
somewhat on her account.
“Come out on the porch. Here is your chair Lucy,” and Mr.
Churchill wheeled it round. “Why you do look quite bright. Miss
Endicott, we must thank you for part of it.”
“I have not done much, I am sure.”
“Oh, Aunt Lucy, have you a protege, or has Miss Endicott kindly
consented to rule you for the nonce? Will my occupation be gone?”
“What nonsense, Winthrop! Miss Endicott came over to spend the
day, taking pity on me. I have been so forlornly lonesome of late.”
“Then I have arrived just in the nick of time, if that word has any
meaning or relation to anything above or under the waters. Let me
feel your pulse. Quite reduced, I must admit. Beef tea and camomile
flowers three times a day. A long walk morning and evening.
Cheerful society—a new bonnet—and—but try that first. My
knowledge is not exhausted.”
“Could you take the ride, think, Lucy?” asked Miss Churchill.
“Kenton we will have the large carriage and all go.”
“What conspiracy have you planned?” inquired Winthrop.
“A harmless drive,” returned Miss Lucy mirthfully. “If it looks
suspicious we will leave you at home in Hugo’s charge.”
Hugo was a handsome English hound, as aristocratic as his
master.
They all asked and answered questions, drawing Fan within their
beautiful circle by the fine tact of thorough breeding. She was so gay
and charming, and withal natural without any aiming at position or
special notice. Indeed she and Mr. Ogden had two or three passages
of sharpness between them that made their elders laugh.
It came supper time so soon, that Miss Lucy declared gaily she
had been defrauded; the day certainly was shorter than usual.
 “Yes,” returned Mr. Churchill, “they are. We have passed the
longest days.”
“Have you? Sometimes I feel as if I were just coming to mine,” and
there was a graver look in her face.
“Aunt Lucy low spirited! Why I thought you were a very princess of
philosophy!”
“One’s heart does fail sometimes.”
“But I am to be married you know, and you are to make me long
visits. I’ll save my buttons for you to sew on, you shall embroider my
initials, and mend my gloves. Will not that be happiness enough?”
“What is your wife to do meanwhile?”
He affected to be puzzled. “Why I suppose she will not know how
to do anything. Is not that the accomplishment of the girl of the
period?”
“There may be girls of the semi-colon who do not go quite so far;”
answered Miss Lucy drolly.
Winthrop glanced up at Fan who colored vividly.
“Excuse me, Miss Endicott, I—”
 Stephen Duncan.

“Winthrop you are not to tease Miss Endicott, nor to classify her,
either. I take her under my especial protection.”
 “I lay down my arms at once, Aunt Lucy. I am your most obedient.”
And so it went on with bits of fun and pleasantness cropping out
now and then. Mr. Churchill unbending, Miss Churchill straying from
the little hedge of formalities, sweet as a wild briar blossom. And
Lucy was nearly as bright as Fan.
The carriage came around soon afterwards. Mr. Ogden insisted
upon driving, so the man was dispensed with. The Churchill estate
was very large, including the mountainous track and a good deal of
woodland. It was not a much frequented drive, although Round Hill
was one of the curiosities of the town. But the Churchills and the
Garthwaites seemed to fence it in with their sense of ownership, and
it was not common property like Longmeadow and the Cascades.
But it was very beautiful in the low lying light. Here was a field in
deep gloom, shadowed by yonder trees, here a strip of waving grain,
then long sweeps of grassy hillsides broken by clumps of young
cedars or hemlocks. An irregular wooded chain—the mountains,
Wachusetts’ people called them, divided us from the quaint little town
lying in the next valley. Here was the delightful opening that
appeared more level by contrast with the tall trees on both sides, and
next, symmetrical Round Hill, in a flood of golden red light, for the
sun was going down between this and the next eminence.
Fan just turned to Miss Lucy and put out her hand. But the
eloquent words and the intense appreciation were in her fluttering
color, her swelling lip and kindling eye, and the simple gesture.
“I knew you would like it;” said Lucy just as quietly.
Miss Churchill looked over at them. Was she thinking of what Mrs.
Endicott had said—how she kept young in her children’s lives? For
Lucy’s face was like a girl’s again.
“I sometimes think there can be nothing in Europe more beautiful,”
Miss Lucy said at length. “It is my Alps. Ah, if one could paint that
glow!”
Winthrop glanced back. “I wish you could have seen some
pictures in the Academy, Aunt Lucy;” and then he went on to
describe them in an eager manner, evincing much genuine love for
beauty, and a kind of fitness, for his tone was low and earnest,
without any assumption of manishness.
Meanwhile as they wound slowly along, the sky changed from the
crimson gold, to orange, then to a yellow tint, sending out long rays
into the frost-white, not unlike an Aurora. All the edges of the hills
were purple and blue, with a peculiar velvety softness, losing
themselves presently in hazy indistinctness.
“Kenton,” Lucy said, “this place ought to be re-christened. Sunset
Hill would be more appropriate. There is no such enchanting sunset
for miles around.”
“But it isn’t always that,” in his dry humorous way. “And it is always
round.”
“Then mine shall be its holiday name, a kind of golden
remembrance.”
“It is beautiful;” Miss Churchill said with deep feeling. “Miss Fanny,
your father preached a good sermon last Sunday morning, about our
longing for loveliness and grandeur which was far away, and not
enjoying that right beside us, and our desiring to do some great
thing, waiting years for the opportunity, when we might have made
our lives rich with the small daily deeds that are at our very finger
ends. And how many of us long for Italy when we have clear skies
and glowing sunsets at home that we know nothing about!”
“Because such lives are crowded full to repletion. I sometimes
wonder if we do not have too much instead of not enough? I find a
large world right around here, because I can’t get out comfortably to
any larger one.”
“And because you see the beauty in every thing,” returned Fanny
softly. “It’s just like daily bread, the now, and here. We need not
starve to-day because of a famine coming a hundred years hence.”
Mr. Churchill raised his grave eyes and smiled, just a little. They
moved on quietly again, the wide glory of the twilight heavens falling
gently over, clasping hands with the indistinct outlines of the beautiful
earth. The creek went rippling and winding around, making a