"Will you pull down that bough, Oliver ?" said Randal, abruptly, pointing to a tree.

Oliver obeyed mechanically; and Randal, stripping the leaves and snapping off the twigs, left a fork at the end; with this he began to remove the stepping-stones.
"What are you about, Randal ?" asked Oliver, wonderingly.
"We are on the other side of the brook now, and we shall not come back this way.

We don't want the stepping-stones any more!--away with them!".