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"Come on, Nort! It's your turn to cut out the next one!" "S'pose I make a mux of it, Bud!" "Shucks! You won't do that! You've roped a calf before!" "Yes, but not at a big round-up like this. If I make a fizzle the fellows will give me the laugh!" "What if they do? Everybody knows you haven't been at it long, and you've got to make a start. Besides, anybody's likely to make a mistake.
"Oh, can't we send them the rest of the cabbage?" Mux quickly suggested. "Come and work on the embroidery I have started for you, Mux. We shall see who can beat to-day. Perhaps that will clear away your thoughts about the cabbage. Come and sit beside me, Mux." The mother put a little chair beside hers and placed the work in the boy's nimble fingers.
"What do you mean, Mux? What are you talking about?" she asked. "I saw it in my picture book. The leaves the cows get are just the same as those in the kitchen," he explained none too clearly, but the mother understood him directly. She remembered how interestedly he had looked at the cabbage leaves when the girl had brought them home from market.
"Here I am, Agnes, but do not be so violent," sounded the mother's voice from the kitchen. Agnes ran to her. "Mother, what is Mux saying? Is it really true? I know that Mr. Schaller has been here and that he can tell us what we have to do. What did he say? Is it really true what Mux has said? Oh, I'll never eat again! I don't want to sleep or do anything any more. Everything, then, is lost!"
Cornelli opened the letter under great suspense and read: DEAR CORNELLI: Only think! I am ill and have to lie in bed. The doctor has forbidden me to read and write, so this letter will be very short. It is very tiresome to be sick, for my sisters are in school all day. Mama always has a lot to attend to and Mux is still a very useless little fellow.
You could see this purpose in them as plainly as you could see the purpose in a swallow's wings. Whenever Mux ran across the yard these paws picked up trouble out of the turf, just as if the grass were trouble-filings, and Mux a kind of four-footed magnet. He never went far before they clogged and stopped him.
Directly after lunch Nika and Agnes had to hurry off to school again and the mother had to supervise Trina's work, so Mux was entrusted with the task of entertaining Cornelli for a little while. That suited him exactly. "Now, I'll show you that Agnes has really broken a man on the wheel," he said triumphantly. "But I don't believe it, Mux. And why should the man have held still?" asked Cornelli.
But you must not talk about it, because Mama has forbidden it." "No, no, I don't want to see the book. Please take me to Dino now," Cornelli urged. Mux pulled Cornelli away from the kitchen at last and, not far from there, opened a door. "Are you coming at last, Cornelli?" Dino cried to her. He was sitting up in bed.
I felt justified in keeping this animal caged. He was not fit to run loose even in the Bear Swamp. Perhaps I have done him wrong in this story of the frog. Frogs may need washing, after all, despite the fact that they are never out of the bath-tub long enough to dry off once in their whole lives. Mux knew more about frogs than I, doubtless. But Mux insisted upon washing oysters.
But Cornelli had to talk over so many things with Dino that the time had passed before they had thought it possible, and it was not long before Mux came running with the message that supper was ready. The meal had to be early because Cornelli had to leave immediately after it. "Oh, what a shame!" said Cornelli, jumping up because she knew her father did not like to wait.
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