Willie and the mortage, showing how much may be accomplished b y a boy . ied Willie, I will do that. So, when the teamster got to the top of the hill, he stopped hishorses, and Willie, leaving his cow to eat the grass by the road-side the meanwhile, climbed up to the top of the load on thewagon, and tried his key. Of course it fitted. On opening thechest, he found the book in the place he had described. He tookit out, locked his chest again, and climbed down. He then tookhis dipper out from his pack, and milked a dipper full of milk fromhis cow, and gave it to the teamster. The teamster drank
Willie and the mortage, showing how much may be accomplished b y a boy . ied Willie, I will do that. So, when the teamster got to the top of the hill, he stopped hishorses, and Willie, leaving his cow to eat the grass by the road-side the meanwhile, climbed up to the top of the load on thewagon, and tried his key. Of course it fitted. On opening thechest, he found the book in the place he had described. He tookit out, locked his chest again, and climbed down. He then tookhis dipper out from his pack, and milked a dipper full of milk fromhis cow, and gave it to the teamster. The teamster drank it, andsaid it was most excellent milk, and that he had made a most ex-cellent bargain. I wish I could get as good a drink as that, he said, for stop-ping on the top of every hill. Willie was as much pleased w^th the bargain as the teamsterhimself. He was rejoiced to get the book, and he went on for D 50 THE JOURNEY. Picture of Willie walking along the road. several hours reading in his book as he walked along. The read-ing beguiled the way in a very agreeable Willie found, at first, that it was somewhat difficult to keep hisbook steady enough, while walking, to read conveniently, and, ifLittle Jumper had not been very quiet, he could not have done itat all. He had, in fact, a great many things to attend to—his THE JOURNEY. 51 A great drove comes along. Little Jumper gets caught in it. pack and stick to carry, his book to hold, and his cow to lead, but,with attention and care, he soon learned to manage quite well. At length, just before noon, when Willie was beginning to lookout for a place to stop for dinner, he met with an adventure of avery different character from his meeting with the team—onewhich, for a time, led him into serious difficulty. A drove of cat-tle came along the road, in a direction contrary to the one in whichhe w^as going. Willie had met a herd of cattle the day before ;but as soon as he saw them coming, he drove Little Jumper outof the road al
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