FREE BOOKS

Author's List




PREV.   NEXT  
|<   98   99   100   101   102   103   104   105   106   107   108   109   110   111   112   113   114   115   116   117   118   119   120   121   122  
123   124   125   126   127   128   129   130   131   132   133   134   135   136   137   138   139   140   141   142   143   144   145   146   147   >>   >|  
ome before we get back. Don't tell them where we're gone." "Nor about Caliph, Gertie, you can say we'll be back in a minute." Katy had mounted behind Jane while she was giving this last direction and poor Calico started off at a gallop. They crossed the creek and came to the place where the road forked just beyond the timber without seeing hide or hair of Caliph. "He must have streaked it. I don't think he'd take the road to town--he must have gone straight home to the Captain's. Oh, dear, I'll have to tell him I used Ernest's horse without permission, and I've got these awful clothes on! It just seems as if the Captain has to know every single bad thing I ever do." Chicken Little heaved a long sigh and clucked to Calico. They had almost reached the Captain's gate when they saw Wing Fan approaching on horseback, leading the truant Caliph. Chicken Little was immensely relieved to find, as they came near, that neither saddle nor bridle had suffered from the run away. Wing Fan was also greatly relieved to find that no one had been hurt. "Me velly 'fraid honorable brother have bad fall. Captain Clarke no home. I bring horse, find out." Wing held Caliph while Jane mounted, and rode a little way with her to make sure he would not be fractious, but Caliph seemed to have had his fling and bowled along smoothly. In the meantime Ernest and Sherm had arrived and were plying Gertie with questions between mouthfuls. Gertie parried as long as she could, shutting her lips together tight when they began to press her too hard. "I'd just like to know what they are up to now. That precious sister of mine can get into more scrapes than any kid I ever saw." "And Katy isn't far behind her," added Sherm, hoping Gertie would try to defend her absent sister and let something out. Chicken Little and Katy took the horses to the barn, carefully unsaddled Caliph, and rubbed both horses down and fed them, before going back to the orchard. They forgot all about their unusual dress. They arrived there, tired and flushed, in time to help the boys finish the last melon. "You mean things to eat the melons all up." Chicken Little almost forgot her own offense in her disgust over their greediness. The boys did not waste time defending themselves; their attention was concentrated on the girls' peculiar costume. "Well, what in the demnition bow wows have you been doing now, Chicken Little Jane Morton?" Ernest's gaze wandered
PREV.   NEXT  
|<   98   99   100   101   102   103   104   105   106   107   108   109   110   111   112   113   114   115   116   117   118   119   120   121   122  
123   124   125   126   127   128   129   130   131   132   133   134   135   136   137   138   139   140   141   142   143   144   145   146   147   >>   >|  



Top keywords:

Caliph

 

Chicken

 

Little

 
Gertie
 
Captain
 

Ernest

 
mounted
 

horses

 

forgot

 

arrived


relieved
 

sister

 

Calico

 

concentrated

 

attention

 
peculiar
 

precious

 

scrapes

 

costume

 
parried

wandered

 
mouthfuls
 

meantime

 

plying

 

questions

 

demnition

 

shutting

 
defend
 

melons

 

unusual


offense

 

disgust

 

orchard

 

finish

 

things

 

flushed

 

Morton

 

absent

 

defending

 

hoping


greediness

 

unsaddled

 

rubbed

 

carefully

 

suffered

 

straight

 
streaked
 

clothes

 

permission

 

giving