Part 50 (1/2)
”Why not?”
”Don't like to see dogs hurt,” said Ra with an aard knot
”Oh, don't you! Why, if your father had been along here with that rusty old gun of hisn, that he shoots rabbits with, and seen that dog scratching a them stones, knohat he'd have done?”
”No”
”Well, then, I do He'd have shot hiain, I'll drop a big flat stone down on him, and then chuck him off the cliff”
”If you do, I'll chuck you down after hi into a fresh roar of laughter ”Oh, come, I likes that Why, you pup! That's what you are--a pup”
This was uttered as meant to be a most contemptuous intonation of the voice
”Pups can bite hard sometimes, Je touched”
”Ho! Then he's to come here when he likes, and show everybody the way into our store, is he? Well, we shall see”
”Yes; and you'd better go and see if they've gone”
”Ah, yes, lad, I'll go and see if they've gone; and we needn't quarrel 'bout it, for it strikes me as little missus won't come down here no more, I scared her too hing, and went lu ell out of sight, before rejoining Ram to take the prisoner his repast
CHAPTER THIRTY ONE
Three days passed, and the idea of losing her co to Celia, that she made no further journey toward the cliffs, in spite of several efforts made by Grip to coax her in that direction But on the fourth day there was so mean and unsatisfactory a dinner at the Hoze, of the paltry little rock fish caught by the labouringof the unsatisfactory fare, and thought how easily it ht have been supple, she o
”I could be very careful, and not go near any of the slopes running down to the cliff, and I could o,” she said
The nextshe partook of her breakfast quite early--a si of barley bread and a cup of fresha basket, she called Grip, who caht
The dog's satisfaction was a little damped as hisrushes by another path But it was of no use; Celia hadcould not coax her his way, and would not go alone, he had to follow her
There was a reason for this route being chosen, for Celia did not care to be seen by Ra to work hard on Shackle's farm, which was ill tended, and consisted for theland; but soe staff of labourers to keep it in such bad order
By passing through the fir-wood, Celia es, and she went on, with the dog following sulkily behind, but reviving a little upon being given the basket to carry
She trudged on for about a mile over the thin stony pastures, found a fair nuilled radually adding to her store of glistening braer-tips were purple with the stains
The course she chose was down in the hollows between the hills, till at last she struck the one along which she had passed after leaving Ra that, if the boy selected it, there would be good reason for his so doing She walked steadily on, finding a button mushroom here and a bunch of blackberries there