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Updated: August 16, 2024
No trouble in recognizing Ben, now; but somehow he didn't want to be seen, and, instead of staying to be praised, he soon slipped away, making Lita his excuse to vanish behind the curtain while the rest went into the house to have a finishing-off game of blindman's-buff in the big kitchen.
"Of course it is. I looked it out in the dic., and you mustn't call it a payton, though it is spelt with a p," added Bab, who liked to lay down the law on all occasions, and did not mention that she had looked vainly among the Vs till a school-mate set her right. "You can't tell me much about carriages. But what I want to know is where Lita will stay?" said Ben.
Before the delighted children could get their breath, Lita gave signs of her dislike to the foot-lights, and, gathering up the reins that lay on her neck, Ben gave the old cry, "Houp-la!" and let her go, as he had often done before, straight out of the coach-house for a gallop round the orchard.
"You were a fool to try there; but where is Miss Celia?" said Ben, who talked to animals as if they were people, and was understood much better than any one not used to their companionship would imagine. Now Lita seemed at a loss, and put her head down, as if she expected to find her mistress where she had left her, somewhere on the ground.
Zay looked somewhat irresolute; but her mamma here spoke: "I think," said she, "if you intend to reach the woods before dark you should start at once, for it is almost two o'clock now." "Good-bye ev'ybody," said Zay again. "And," said Lita, "I'll carry the gun down and open the front gate for you." Bravely the child marched out of the room, out of the front door and gate.
"I'll look for you, ma'am; I'd like to!" said an eager voice so unexpectedly, that both horse and rider started as a boy came down the bank with a jump. "I wish you would. You need not be afraid; Lita is as gentle as a lamb," answered the young lady, smiling, as if amused by the boy's earnestness.
She climbed the tree to pick the flowers and when she was up in the tree they shot arrows at her to kill her; but though they shot many arrows they could not kill her. Then they compelled Lita to shoot and he with his first arrow killed his sister. Then they cut up the body of the girl ready for cooking and sent Lita to a well to fetch water in which to cook the flesh.
But Lita was afraid and said: "When you get me there you will eat me, or if you don't, your father and mother will." But the snake protested that it could not be guilty of such ingratitude and at last Lita agreed to accompany it when he had left the other animals at his home. This he did and set off alone with the snake, and after some days they reached the snake's home.
She was took bad this mornin', an' has been callin' for the teacher an' Lita an' I'd as lief go to hell as to ask a damned Kanaka mission'ry to come an' talk Gospel an' Heaven to a child o' mine not in my own house, anyway. It ain't right or proper.
Paine, standing still to watch horse and rider go over the wall as if bent on instant destruction. "No fear for Ben, he can ride any thing, and Lita was trained to leap," answered Miss Celia, falling back on the hay with a groan, for she had involuntarily raised her head to see her little squire dash away in gallant style. "I should hope so; regular jockey, that boy.
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