33/37 She don't know anything; and she is as ugly and cross as she can be." "Was she cross to Mr.Dinwiddie ?" "Yes, indeed. He said he never saw such a crabbed old thing. I don't like to ride by that way." The children were called in to dinner, and kept in the house by Mrs. But when the afternoon was cooling off, or at least growing less oppressive, the two children again sought the shade under the walnut tree, where the gurgle of the water over the stones, and the company of the squirrels in the tree, made the place pleasant. |