When do you think Dickon will come ?" He was not long in coming.

In about ten minutes Mary held up her hand.
"Listen!" she said.

"Did you hear a caw ?" Colin listened and heard it, the oddest sound in the world to hear inside a house, a hoarse "caw-caw." "Yes," he answered.
"That's Soot," said Mary.

"Listen again.

Do you hear a bleat--a tiny one ?" "Oh, yes!" cried Colin, quite flushing.
"That's the new-born lamb," said Mary.