He found his feet again, and, making off, ran through the wheat, glancing back over his shoulder as he tore along.

He crossed into the grass paddock, and running to a big tree dodged round and round it.

Then from tree to tree he went, and that evening at sundown, when Joe was bringing the cows home, Jack was still flying from "his father".
After supper.
"I wonder now what the old fool saw in that snake to send him off his head like that ?" Dad said, gazing wonderingly into the fire.

"He sees plenty of them, goodness knows." "That was n't it.

It was n't the snake at all," Mother said; "there was madness in the man's eyes all the while.