At last we bid good bye to Captain

At last we bid good bye to Captain Stoddard and one or two favorite sailors and Ann, and our home for three months, and descended the ladder down to "terra firma", which reversed the order and gave us unsteady "land legs", instead of sea ones; and found ourselves in one of the wonderful little houses, jogging along the wharf and into the street. We stopped at a little store, and father took us all in, to be fitted to scarfs and mittens, which were other wonders to us—our hands and necks and ears to be covered!