"You need not hurry so much," he said; "there's a shorter cut, only I
suppose you can't get through a gap."
"Can't I?" she laughed; and he led her on straight through the Short-
horns. Some of them looked at her more than she fancied, but she
knew she might give up all hopes of Sam if he detected her fears.
Then came the gap, where a tree had been cut down in the hedge, and
such a jump down from it! But she gathered up her muslin, and made
her leap so gallantly, that the boy cried,
"Hurrah! well done!" and came and walked close to her, saying
confidentially, "I say, do you think we shall ever do the pig?"
"I am sure it might be done. If you are likely to do it you must
know better than I."
"I don't know that I much care about it. It will be rather a bother;
only now we have said it, I shall hate it if we don't do it."
"I think the pleasure of giving it will be a delightful reward for a
little self-command."
"Only Hal and the girls will make such a work about it. I'm glad,
after all, that Bessie has nothing to do with it, or she would want
to dress it up in flowers and ribbons.
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