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It made Pony feel very forlorn, but he did not like to say anything for fear Jim Leonard would call him cowardy-calf. It was near sunset, on a cool day in the beginning of October, and the wind was stirring the dry blades in the corn-patch at the side of the barn. They made a shivering sound, and it made Pony lonesomer and lonesomer.
He said it was just the place for Indian, and he wanted to be where he could get at them if they started up when the boys got by, as they would very likely do. Some of the big fellows called him a cowardy-calf; but he said he would show them when the time came, and most of the little boys believed him and tried to get in front.
"Now, you see, Pony," said Jim Leonard, "what a good thing it was that I thought about provisioning you before you started. What makes you look so?" Pony said, "I'm not looking!" Jim Leonard said, "You're not afraid, are you, just because that fellow got took up? You're not such a cowardy-calf as to want to back out now?" The tears came into Pony's eyes. "Cowardy-calf yourself, Jim Leonard!
Leon whispered and said he bet it was the last time I would play that, so as soon as my coat and dress were washed and dried, and I could go back to school, I did it again, just to show him I was no cowardy-calf; but I had learned from May to choose a puddle I could manage before I faded. "Even So" "All things whatsoever ye would That men should do to you, Do ye even so to them."
He dug his toe into the turf in the court-house yard under the locust-tree, and did not say anything till Jim Leonard asked him if he was afraid to go off and live with the Indians, because if he was going to be a cowardy-calf like that, it was all that Jim Leonard wanted to do with him.
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