. A family flight around home. llow of an animal of the bull species. Without stopping to lookbehind them, the girls started and ran, dropping mushrooms, apples, SOUR GRAPES. 307 and Bessies jacket. They never paused till they reached the bot-tom of the hill, in spite of shouts from the boys telling them tocome back. Perhaps the boys would have liked to run too, but as this wasnot the manly part, they paused, though starting to their feet, toawait some renewalof the noise. Asnone came, they cau-tiously approachedthe stone wall andlooked over. The only live thingto be seen was a redcow standing
. A family flight around home. llow of an animal of the bull species. Without stopping to lookbehind them, the girls started and ran, dropping mushrooms, apples, SOUR GRAPES. 307 and Bessies jacket. They never paused till they reached the bot-tom of the hill, in spite of shouts from the boys telling them tocome back. Perhaps the boys would have liked to run too, but as this wasnot the manly part, they paused, though starting to their feet, toawait some renewalof the noise. Asnone came, they cau-tiously approachedthe stone wall andlooked over. The only live thingto be seen was a redcow standing in asort of tangle ofbushes and had apparentlysqueezed herself intoa place she did notlike, for when sheperceived the twoboys she opened hermouth and produceda precise repetitionof the fearful soundwhich had so alarmedthem just before. The boys burst outlaughing, See those wildgrapes! exclaimed Hubert, in almost the same minute. I won-der if they are ripe ! He began to climb the wall after them, while Tom went back. SOUR GRAPES. 808 A FAMILY FLIGHT AROUND HOME. to reassure the girls, if possible. They were far down the hill,and still running. In vain he shouted after them, Bessie! Alice!It was nothing but an old cow! They did not turn round; prob-ably they did not hear him. There was nothing for him to do butto pick up jacket, mushrooms and apples, and follow them, which hedid in a frame of mind not altogether amiable. He overtook the girls at the foot of the hill, for they hadslackened their pace as soon as they thought themselves out of wrath ceased after he had scolded them for their cowardice,and they all walked home together. Hubert, meantime, scrambled through the tangled bushes on thecows side of the wall, and reached home by a different route,about the same time the others did. He reported, however, thatthe grapes were sour.
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