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Right good for a little girl . '' `` I am six years old , '' said Nancy , `` and I know lots more than that . '' `` Well , let 's get mother and the bedding started down . It 'll be noon before we know it . '' There were two pack-saddles in the wagon , ready against such straits as this . The rolls were made , balanced as side packs , and circled with the swing-ropes , loose cloths , clothes , frying-pans , the lantern , and the axe tossed in to fill the gap in the middle , canvas flung over the whole , and the diamond-hitch hauled taut on the first pack , when a second rider appeared across the river . He came out of a space between the opposite hills , into which the trail seemed to turn , and he was leading the first man 's horse .