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The sun had climbed well over the high barriers which lay eastwards, and was shining brightly down through the quivering blue ether overhead; the frost sparkled on every broad flax-blade or slender tussock-spine, as if the silver side of earth were turned outwards that winter morning. C. H set spurs to his horse, and bounded over the slip-rail of the paddock before Karl could get it down.
A wild bird and a crying child! Suppose he had gone back! Thank goodness he hadn't, but it was a near shave. The boy and girl walked happily along, hand in hand. They had reached the slip-rail and were climbing over, when a tall man appeared from the garden of Drink Between. "Grizzel! What in the wide creation are you doing here at this hour of night, or rather morning?
So long as he was within the grounds of the house he felt confident and cheerful, but when he reached the slip-rail and looked over into the land beyond he felt some of his courage oozing away. It looked eerie, that strange, unfamiliar country, in this white light.
'Wouldn't you like to go in just for a minute, Dick? says Aileen. I knew what she was thinking of. I was half a mind not, but then something seemed to draw me, and I was off my horse and had the slip-rail down before I knew where I was.
Never until my dyin' day, and not even then, I expect, shall I forget what the dog and I saw lying on the ground, which was all white and hard with frost, the sun not having got over the East range yet. Not very far off there was a lean horse standing, but he didn't seem to like to come through the slip-rail o' the paddock fence.
"I'll put him back in the hollow trunk where Grizzel hid him," he decided, with a twinkle in his eyes. "It might be rather a lark " A sharp sprint brought him up with the other two boys, who were awaiting his arrival seated on the top of a slip-rail, Mollie having gone in search of Prudence and Grizzel. "What on earth have you been doing?" Hugh demanded. "Have you been swimming?"
Here, take it, and hurry back: think of your map," Meg returned, in a very fever of impatience at his slowness. And then Bunty, utterly happy once more, turned and ran away gaily up to the house. And Meg let down the slip-rail, put it back in its place with trembling fingers, and fled in wild haste through the two remaining paddocks.
How Frank Oldfield got home he could not tell. His horse knew his road, and followed it; for, dumb brute as he was, his senses were not clouded by the unnatural stimulant which had stolen away the intellects of his rational master. Darkness had settled down when horse and rider reached the slip-rail at the entrance of the field before Frank's house.
About a couple of miles out, the old woman alighted and slipped a rail; and having passed the only other house within cooee, they drove through a paddock, but at a walking-pace, because of the thousands of rabbit-burrows that perforated the ground. Another slip-rail lowered, they drew up at the foot of a steepish hill, beside a sandy little vegetable garden, a shed and a pump.
Of course, he had to bring up the whole mob. My talents in the shouting line were not called out upon this occasion, for they all trotted into the stockyard of their own accord, and I had nothing to do but put up the slip-rail as fast as I could with only one available arm, for though it is better, I cannot use the other yet.
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