. Tattine . akesthem more difficult, but then again sometimes it does helpa little, and this appeared to be one of those times, for whenthe girls crying put Rudolph to his wits end, he realised thatthere was just one thing left to try, and that was to jumpoverboard and try and pull Barney to land, since Barneywould not pull him. So into the water he jumped, keepingthe reins in his hand, and then, getting a little ahead of Barney,he began to walk and pull. Now fortunately, there is nothinglike the force of example, which simply means that when TATTINE. 41 Barney saw Rudolph walking and pulling
. Tattine . akesthem more difficult, but then again sometimes it does helpa little, and this appeared to be one of those times, for whenthe girls crying put Rudolph to his wits end, he realised thatthere was just one thing left to try, and that was to jumpoverboard and try and pull Barney to land, since Barneywould not pull him. So into the water he jumped, keepingthe reins in his hand, and then, getting a little ahead of Barney,he began to walk and pull. Now fortunately, there is nothinglike the force of example, which simply means that when TATTINE. 41 Barney saw Rudolph walking and pulling he began to walkand pull too. Meantime, while Patrick and his wife were think-ing that the children had had plenty of time to reachhome before the storm, there was great anxiety in the twohomes where those three dear children lived. Patrick thecoachman and Philip the groom had been sent with thewagonette by the main road to Patrick Kirks—Patrick tobring the children and Philip to take charge of Barney, but. as the children were coming home, or rather trying to comehome, by the ford, of course they missed them. All the while the storm was growing in violence,and suddenly for about five minutes great hailstones camebeating down till the lawn was fairly white with them, andthe panes of glass in the green-house roof at Oakdene crackedand broke beneath them. And those three blessed childrenare probably out in it all, thought Tattines Mother, standingpale and trembling at her window, and watching the road up 42 TATTINE. which the wagonette would have to come. And then whatdid she see but Barney, trotting bravely up the hill, withthe geese still craning their necks through the laths of thecage, but with the reins dragging through the mud of theroadway, and with no children in the little cart. Closebehind him came the wagonette, which Barney was cleverlymanaging to keep well ahead of, but Mrs. Gerald soon dis-covered that neither wTere the children in that either. Inan instant she wa
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