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That year there was good sleighing , and the whole town seemed to turn out to celebrate the occasion of Jim Sedgwick 's bringing home his bride . Four days passed in a whirl of pleasure . The first morning after their arrival , Sedgwick asked his brother for his trotting team , his new cutter , and the bells , to give Grace her first sleigh-ride . The steppers were of the 2:30 class , the roads good , and the fair English girl-wife was in ecstacies . They drove past the Jasper farm on the hill , and Sedgwick told Grace that it was his dream for years to accumulate $ 30,000 to release the mortgage from his father 's farm and to buy the Jasper farm . `` Then what would I have done ? '' asked Grace .