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I loaded again quick as possible, and there saw two other smaller cattle stepping very high as though terrified, but not aware of the nature or location of the danger. I gave a low whistle and one of them looked toward me long enough for me to put a ball in it. The third one was now behind a clump of sycamores, and I soon saw its face through a little opening not more than three inches wide.
The women and children were stowed away on bundles of baggage and camp stuff in the wagons, some of them asleep perhaps, rocked in their "schooner" cradles. A few of the men and boys perchance were strolling off the way, in the hope of starting a sage grouse or rabbit from some sheltering clump of brush.
The atmosphere of the woods was of soft, diffusive green the sunlight filtering through the transparent leaves. Bowers of delicate ferns and vines flanked the path, and an occasional clump of giant cedars invited us: the world was eloquent. Several tourists upon the verandah of the hotel remarked us with curiosity as we entered. A servant said that Mrs.
"Go on," said the teacher severely. She was quite young, and also stood in some awe of Squire Bean, but she did not wish her pupils to discover it, so she pretended to ignore that step in the entry. Squire Bean walked with a heavy gilt-headed cane which always went clump, clump, at every step; beside he shuffled one could always tell who was coming.
I went from clump to clump of the lilacs testing and comparing them with great joy and satisfaction. They vary noticeably in odour; the white varieties being the most delicate, while those tending to deep purple are the richest. Some of the newer double varieties seem less fragrant and I have tested them now many times than the old-fashioned single varieties which are nearer the native stock.
Braxton Wyatt went with them, and he dared not look back once at that fateful clump of bushes. When they were gone far beyond sight, Henry Ware, Tom Ross, and Shif'less Sol rose up, looked at each other, and laughed. "That wuz well done, Henry," said Shif'less Sol lazily. "I never knowed a purtier trick to be told. He's clean caught in his own net.
The woods were on both sides of a broad road, and before the children reached the clump of trees they could see other boys and girls scurrying around, poking in among the leaves on the ground to get the nuts which had fallen down when the frost cracked open the burrs. "I hope they'll leave some for us," said Nellie Parks. "Oh, I guess there will be plenty," returned her brother.
Now, if I could get a little work so as you could rest up several days it'd be just the thing. I '11 keep my eye peeled." Almost on the outskirts of town he left Saxon on the county road and went up a long driveway to what appeared a large farm. He came back beaming. "It's all hunkydory," he called as he approached. "We'll just go down to that clump of trees by the creek an' pitch camp.
When a clump of bushes on the bank had hid Gilbert from her sight, she stopped, took breath, and chuckled with luxurious satisfaction. "Betsy Lavender," she said, with marked approval, "you're a cuter old thing than I took you to be!" The next morning Sam took Gilbert's bay horse to Kennett Square, and hitched him in front of Dr. Deane's door.
As they passed the clump of bushes the near horse of the half-broken pair gave a catlike bound to the right against his tracemate. A second jump followed the first with flash-like quickness; and this time the frightened animal was accompanied by his companion, who, not knowing what it was all about, jumped on general principles.
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