"
"Why, Daisy," said Captain Drummond, though his conscience
smote him, — "you don't seem to me very happy lately."
"Don't I?" she said. "But I am happy. I only wish everybody
else was happy too."
She presently wiped her eyes, and stood up. "Captain
Drummond," said she, "don't you think we can find another of
these things?"
Anything to change the course matters had taken, the Captain
thought, so he gave ready assent; and he and Daisy entered
upon a most lively renewed quest among the rocks that covered
all that mountain-side. Daisy was more eager than he; she
wanted very much to have a trilobite for her own keeping; the
difficulty was, she did not know how to look for it. All she
could do was to follow her friend, and watch all his doings,
and direct him to new spots in the mountain that he had not
tried. In the course of this business the Captain did some
adventurous climbing; it would have distressed Daisy if she
had not been so intent upon his object; but as it was she
strained her little head back to look at him, where he picked
his way along at a precipitous height above her, sometimes
holding to a bramble or sapling, and sometimes depending on
his own good footing and muscular agility.
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