7/21 Sometimes a flowering bush of some sort broke the general green with a huge spot of white or red flowers; gradually those became fewer, and were lost sight of; but the beautiful grass and the trees seemed to be unending. Then a gray rock here and there began to shew itself. Pony got through his gallop, and subsided again to a waddling trot. "It is cruel." "That's what _you_ think. I guess you'd see papa use a whip once in a while." "Besides, you came along too fast to see anything." "Well, I told you I was going to the church, and we hadn't time to go slowly. |