4/15 He couldn't do it with his horn." "But surely you're not such a silly as to take it all for true, Diamond ?" "I think it must be. That killing of the snake looks true. It's what I've got to do so often." His mother looked uneasy. Diamond smiled full in her face, and added-- "When baby cries and won't be happy, and when father and you talk about your troubles, I mean." This did little to reassure his mother; and lest my reader should have his qualms about it too, I venture to remind him once more that Diamond had been to the back of the north wind. |