Be sure to tell them _all_!" "I'll run after them now," answered Ingred, calling "Cuckoo!" to attract their attention.
She told Belle and Linda and Verity, who were near to the stile, and Linda passed the news on to Francie and Kitty.

Bess was quite a long distance down the field, gathering blackthorn from the hedge.
"I'm not going to tear all that way after her!" thought Ingred crossly.
"Verity will be sure to tell her.

They seem inseparable to-day.

Besides which nobody's particularly likely to go into that other meadow.

There are plenty of cowslips here." It took Miss Strong a much longer time to write her postcards than she had originally intended, and while she was thus employed her girls spread themselves out in quest of flowers.