What do you say to trotting down to the gate and giving him another scare ?" "No," said the other.

"It's not worth while.

He's very small, too, and these horns, you know--they are a bit startling.

Besides, there are all those flies by the gate." "True," said the other; "but it makes me smile, all the same." So Gregory got out safely, and, performing the same manoeuvre with the geese, he reached the caravan and Janet's arms without further misfortune.
The others were of course disappointed at the result of his mission, and walked on another half-mile, much farther from Cirencester than they had wished to be, to the next farm.
There Mary and Hester made the request, which was at once granted; and the farmer and his wife were so much interested that they both walked down to the Slowcoach and examined it, and the farmer advised its being taken into a yard where there was a great empty barn and backed against that; so that they had the whole of the barn as a kind of anteroom, and a most enchanting smell of hay everywhere.
"All I ask," he said, "is that you don't burn the place down with your cooking." The pot was then filled and placed on the fire.

Kink skinned the rabbits and Janet and Mary put them in, while Jack and Robert and Horace walked into Cirencester to buy eatables and picture postcards and send off the telegram.
That evening after supper Janet suggested that it might be the best opportunity they would have to write the letters to X.of which they had often talked; so they made themselves comfortable in the caravan and on the barn floor, and each wrote something, not after the style of the Snarker's game at Oxford, but quite separately.
Janet wrote: "Saturday Evening, July 8, "In a Barn near Cirencester.
DEAR X., "We thank you very much for the caravan, which is much the most beautiful present that anyone can ever have had.