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Frequently he and his wife came out for a short time in the early evening, but this night it was nearly nine o'clock when I heard the old gentleman's heavy step in the hall. I made room for him when I saw that it was his intention to sit down, and offered him my tobacco, for I saw that he held a cob pipe in his hands, another unusual thing.
"Here, Minnie," said the shepherd, giving her an ear of corn; "hold this up, and call, 'Luke, and you'll soon have the mother to the lamb eating from the cob." He laughed merrily, as he added, "My boy has given them all Bible names; so we have Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. He hesitated a little about Acts, but finally thought he'd better go straight through.
We shall meet them going home, perhaps." A mile or two farther on they met Roderick alone. His cousin had gone home with her father. "It was rather a bore losing the run," he said, as he turned his horse's head and rode by Vixen, "but I was obliged to take care of my cousin." One of the Squire's tenants, a seventeen-stone farmer, on a stout gray cob, overtook them presently, and Mr.
Bushy-headed, bearded farmers and woodsmen began ramming their grimy hands into the hip pockets of their "blue drillin' overhauls," in which sequestered quarters were prone to hide their "long twist" and homemade cob pipes.
But the little girl had seen Kernel Cob in the Toy-maker's hand, and clapping her hands joyfully said: "Oh, Dad, may I have this one? I think he's so cunning." "How much?" asked Dorothy's father. "Him cost two yen." "Let's see, that's one dollar." "All right," and he took Kernel Cob, and gave the money to the Toy-maker.
It was a clear, cold December day, and Cob trotted briskly over the frozen ground, as if he too, as well as the girls themselves, were enjoying the air and motion. "What is divided up?" asked Molly vaguely, rousing herself from a half-formed plan for Alan's Christmas present. "Oh, everything, at least, everything isn't divided," returned Katharine a little incoherently.
The dignity was now ebbing fast, and by the time that the clever little cob swung round the gate-post into the avenue of Stagholme, Jem and Lasher were fully re-established on the old familiar footing. There was a bright moon overhead, and at the end of the avenue beyond the dip where the lake gleamed mysteriously, the gables and solid towers of Stagholme stood peacefully confessed.
For a long time nobody spoke and pretty soon a little breeze swayed Kernel Cob over toward Sweetclover and he said: "Let's try to find Jackie and Peggs' motheranfather. Let us pray to the fairies that something will come along to help us." "Good!" said Sweet clover, and they prayed and prayed and prayed.
I was down the hill, over the hedge, in the lane, in no time. There, a hundred yards away, I saw my friends the troopers leading my cob. I shouted to them. They heard me. They came up to me at a gallop. In ten seconds more we were sailing away together. "You been getting into scrapes, master," said one of the troopers. "You doan't want to meddle with the folk in these parts."
The vegetables may be dressed with salt, or salt and butter, or salt and olive oil, and at times with cream, or with the natural gravy from meats, but avoid the use of flour and milk dressings, usually called cream gravy. These vegetables may also be eaten without any dressing. The water is drained off from corn on the cob, asparagus, artichokes and unpeeled beets.
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