Part 2 (1/2)
Robert shared his lunch with these youths, and parted from them reluctantly when the horses were put in But aunt Corinne who stood by in a critical attitude, said she couldn't see any use in catching such little fish You never fried h, the split-sleeved boy condescended to inforlass jar, and they'd grow like everything Aunt Corinne was just beco fired with anxiety to own such a jarful herself, when the carriage turned toward the road and her ed her to climb in
About the e to come up He left his seat and cae horse, slapping a fly flat on Old Hickory's flank as he paused
”What's thehappened?”
”No,in his walk on account of the unevenness of his legs; but faithful to the fa brought hiood qualities she discovered fro ludicrous in Zene But aunt Corinne and Bobaday never ceased to titter at Zene's ”, and we can turn off of the 'pike up here at the first by-road, and then take the first cross-road west, and save thirty oes the saett puckered the brows above her glasses She did not want to pay unnecessary bounty to the toll-gate keepers
”Well, that's a good plan, Zene, if you're sure on't lose the way, or fall into any dif-fick-ulty”
”I've asked nigh a dozen men, and they all tell the saht to know the lay of the land in their own neighborhood,”
adett ”Well, we'll try what virtue there is in the dirt road”
So she clucked to the carriage horses and Zene went back to his charge
The last toll-gate they would see for thirtyto the usual arrangement, and the toll-e pass
”I wouldn't like to live in a little bit of a house sticking out on the 'pike like that,” said aunt Corinne to her nephew ”Folks could run against it on dark nights Does he stay there by hiars came by they could nab him the minute he opened his door”
”But if he has any boys,” suggested Robert looking back, ”they can see everybody pass, and it'd be just as good as going some place all the time And who's afraid of robbers!”
Zene beckoned to the carriage as he turned off the 'pike For a distance the wagon moved ahead of them, between tall stake fences which were overrun with vines or had their corners croith bushes
Wheat and cornfields and sweet-s buckwheat spread out on each side until the woods met thee after that Aunt Corinne clasped a leather-covered upright which hurt her hand before, and leaned toward the trees on her side Every new piece of woodland is an unexplored country containing moss-lined stumps, dimples of hollows full of ht saddle-curve for bending down as ”teeters,” such as are never reproduced in any other piece of woodland
Nature does not -halls under the woods' canopies are as diverse as the faces of children wandering there Moss or lichens grow thicker in one spot; another particular enclosure you call the lily or the bloodroot woods, and yet another the wild-grape woods This is distinguished for blackberries away up in the clearings, and that is a fishi+ng woods, where the limbs stretch down to clear holes, and you sit in a root seat and hear springs trickling down the banks while you fish Though Corinne could possess these reaches of trees only with a brief survey, she enjoyed theet lost in the woods,” she observed, ”and have everybody out hunting me while I had to eat berries and roots I don't believe I'd like roots, though: they look so big and tough And I wouldn't touch a persiive ett!”
She turned upon her nephew, fierce with the recollection, and he laughed, saying he wished he'd some to fool somebody with now
”It bit my mouth so a whole crock of ett wouldn't let you off so easy”
”You wanted to taste it,” said Robert ”And you'd eat the green persimmons if they'd puckered your s that the little pig that lived in the stone house filled his churn with, tasted like,” admitted aunt Corinne lucidly; so she subsided
”Do you see the wagon, children?” inquired Grand Zene's lead closely She stopped Old Hickory and Old Henry at cross-roads
”No; but he said turn west on the first road we came to,” counseled Bobaday
”And this is the first, I counted,” said aunt Corinne
”I e could see the cover ahead of us We don't want to resk gettin' separated,” said Grandett
Yet she turned the horses ith a degree of confidence, and drove up into a hilly country which soon hid the sun The long shades crept past and behind theraveyard full of white stones nearly srass and briers
And there was a school-house in an open space, with a playground beaten bare and white in the le They saw so dinner-pail and basket, and taking a languid last tag of each other The little girls looked up at the passing carriage from their sunbonnet depths, but the boys had taken off their hats to slap each other with: they looked at the strangers, round-eyed and ready to sht herself to ask if any of theirls stared bashfully at each other and said ”No, ly that they had seen two o by, one just as school was out, and the boldest boy of all ray horses