15/22 She stood below him and called up to him with a sort of gasp. "Ben Weatherstaff, it was the robin who showed me the way!" Then it did seem as if Ben really would scramble down on her side of the wall, he was so outraged. "Layin' tha' badness on a robin,--not but what he's impidint enow for anythin'. Him showin' thee th' way! Him! Eh! tha' young nowt,"-- she could see his next words burst out because he was overpowered by curiosity--"however i' this world did tha' get in ?" "It was the robin who showed me the way," she protested obstinately. "He didn't know he was doing it but he did. |