[The Slowcoach by E. V. Lucas]@TWC D-Link bookThe Slowcoach CHAPTER 21 8/9
Three kinds of jam.
Bread and butter.Watercress.
Mustard and cress.
This was at five o'clock, and as supper was at half-past eight, Janet urged the others to explore as much as possible, or they would have no appetite, and then Mrs.Pescod would be miserable. It was a delightful farm.
There was everything that one wants in a farm,--a pond with ducks; a haystack half cut, so that one might jump about on it; straw ricks on stone posts; cowsheds smelling so warm and friendly, with swallows darting in and out of the doorway to their nests in the roof; stables with gentle horses who ate the green stuff you gave them without biting you; guinea-pigs, the property of Master Walter Pescod, who was a weekly boarder at Cirencester; fantail pigeons; bantams; ferrets, very frightening to everyone but Kink, who knew just how to hold them; and a turnip-slicer, which Gregory turned for some time, munching turnip all the while. Mrs.Pescod led the girls round with her on an egg-hunt, which is always one of the most interesting expeditions in life; and Mr.Pescod, as the evening drew on, allowed the boys to accompany him with his gun to get a rabbit or two under the hedge, and he permitted Jack to fire it off.
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