"Come here if you aren't afraid of babies!" she said, displaying her charge.

"Look at him, Big Bear! He's three weeks old to-day.

Isn't he fine ?" "What do you know about babies ?" said Merefleet, with his eyes on her lovely flushed face.
She nodded in her sprightly fashion, but her eyes were far away on the distant horizon, and her soul with them.

"I know a lot, Big Bear," she said.
Merefleet watched her, well pleased with the sight.

She stood rocking to and fro.