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To see the rat twist, and hear him groan, would be rare sport; it made his eyes glisten to think of it. He was very desirous that Bevis should find his way home all right, so he at once sent a wasp for the dragon-fly, and the dragon-fly at once started after Bevis.
These tidings were grievous to king Ermyn. He could not forgive his daughter, and yet, after all the deeds he had done, the people of the city would not suffer Bevis to be punished. What was he to do? The more he thought of it the more bewildered he felt; and all the while the two traitors stood patiently by, knowing well what was passing through the king's mind.
"So I will," said Bevis, and he followed the grasshopper, who hopped so far at every step that he had to walk fast to keep up with him. "But why do the birds do it?" "Oh, I don't know why," said the grasshopper; "what is why?" "I want to know," said Bevis, "why do they do it?" "Why?" repeated the grasshopper; "I never heard anybody say anything about that before.
"Why does Choo Hoo want King Kapchack's country?" said Bevis. "Why cannot he stop where he is?"
Bevis, who was utterly forgotten by both in the colloquy that ensued, turned sharp on the rector, and said, "There! what do you say to your curate now?" "He is enough to set the whole parish by the ears," he answered. "I told you so, Mr. Bevis!" "Only it does not follow that therefore he is in the wrong. Our Lord Himself came not to send peace on earth but a sword."
There is always a great deal of talking going on, for the trees have nothing else to do but to gossip with each other; but they never ask why." After that they went on in silence a good way except that the grasshopper cried "S s" to his friends in the grass as he passed, and said good-morning also to a mole who peeped out for a moment. "Why don't you hop straight?" said Bevis, presently.
Bevis looked up and saw that the field was full of cowslips yellow with cowslips. "I will pick every one," said he, "and carry them all back to my mother." "You cannot do that," said the swallow, laughing, "you will not try long enough." "I hate you!" cried Bevis in a passion, and flung his knife, which was in his hand, at the bird.
And he stretched forth a ring, which Barbara immediately recognized as an old signet of her father's which suddenly he had ceased to wear, he said not why. She was partially satisfied. "And Bevis," added the stranger "take it, will you not, dear lady, as a good omen that Bevis let me pass almost unchallenged? But your father," he went on "is he ill, or away? or will you lead me to him?
Now the oak knew the butterfly was there, and that was why he dropped his leaf; and so did the nut-tree bough, and that was why he drooped and let the sun sparkle on the water, and the stream smiled to make Bevis follow him to where the butterfly was playing.
Like Sir Bevis, the hawk was extremely impatient, and the time as he sat on the ash passed very slowly till at last he observed with much delight that the sun was declining, and that the shadow of the dead oak-tree would soon reach across towards him.
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