He came out of the house with a slow step, that quickened to a run when he saw Miss Laura "Laura!" he exclaimed, "what are you doing ?" Then he stopped and looked at the horse, not in amazement, but very sorrowfully.

"Barron is gone," he said, and crumpling up a piece of paper, he put it in his pocket.

"What is to be done to these animals?
There is a cow, isn't there ?" He stepped to the door of the log hut, glanced in, and said, quickly: "Do you feel able to drive home ?" "Yes," said Miss Laura.
"Sure ?" and he eyed her anxiously.
"Yes, yes," she returned; "what shall I get ?" "Just tell father that Barron has run away and left a starving pig, cow, and horse.

There's not a thing to eat here.

He'll know what to do.