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Alfy's rich, though untrained voice, started the song and Helena followed on time, singing very sweetly, indeed, until she came to that tragic part about the tails, when she burst out in a giggle and a vain effort to race along as rapidly as Alfy had done. Herbert could sing well.
Ford and Dorothy leading; then Leslie on the sorrel, Cæsar, with Alfy on Blanca; Helena on Benito, with Monty on the chestnut, Juan a mount well suited to his stature and requirements. Last rode Molly on Juana, another chestnut, and a perfect match for her brother Monty's Juan; while Herbert's Blackamoor finished the caravan, last but by no means least in the creature's own proud estimation.
Take notes of what happens up here on the Rockies. If I succeed I may I may write a book, sometime," said Helena. Molly and Dolly stared, seized with sudden awe of this ambitious young person, and Alfy stared, too; but she was not impressed and her comment was a not unkindly but perfectly sincere remark: "Why, Nell, you couldn't do that. It takes brains to " "Young ladies!
Evidently, Leslie was as much in the dark as Dorothy and Alfy had been, this visitation of so many young strangers a complete surprise to him; but he was trained to good manners and at once captivated Molly's admiration by his cordial greeting. So that, a moment later, she whispered to Dorothy: "Isn't he a dear! I declare he's just a heavenly handsome boy, with his blue eyes and and his air!
The pebble was marked by another D, traced in the red juice of some plant. The basket went one way, the lamb another as Dorothy sprang to her feet and danced for very joy. "Yes, it's from Jim it's from Jim! And he's alive somewhere he is alive! Oh! I am so glad, so glad!" Alfy was glad, too, of this reminder of the lad's existence, but she was also ashamed of him. "Huh!
He was only badly scared and will keep a good distance from our rifle-range hereafter. Alfy did hit the bull's-eye, no matter whether she meant to do it or not. We've had a perfectly lovely evening and a perfectly lovely summer is before us. I mean to get up, to-morrow, and see the sun rise, so off with you, girls. Molly and I are sleepy. Good night to both of you.
Do call it Jim, junior," argued Alfy. "Yes, sissy, but but it ain't that kind of a lamb," observed the Captain, siding with his favorite at once. Molly giggled and even Helena smiled, but Alfy simply pouted. "Huh! Well, then if Jim won't do, call her Jiminetta that'd be after me and him, too, same's I'm Alfaretta."
For, like Dorothy, he felt oddly forlorn and deserted in this great beautiful home that was practically his own; and he wished as he had done before that he might step into that cottage of the Babcock's, "up-mounting" where Alfaretta belonged and where she said everyone was as jolly as the day was long. He hadn't liked Alfy at first and he still rather looked down upon her.
Lord Erymanth carved, and took care that Harold should not starve, and he was evidently trying to turn the talk into such a direction as to show his sister what his guests were; but Eustace's tongue was, of course, the ready one, and answered glibly about closed beershops, projected cottages, and the complete drainage of the Alfy nay, that as to Bullock and Ogden hearing reason, he had only to go over in person and the thing was done; the farmyard was actually set to rights, and no difficulty at all was made as to the further improvements now that the landlord had once shown himself concerned.
On that sorrowful, august occasion that pent up, solitary fowl deposited two eggs in her softly lined nest. "That might be. Ma's hens do that, sometimes, good breeds," said Alfy, in answer to the Chinaman's impressive statement. With all this company of doubters around him Wun Sing felt secure enough to go on and state that on the day following there had been four eggs!
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