CHAPTER 1.VI.Bonaparte Blenkins Makes His Nest.
"Ah, what is the matter ?" asked Waldo, stopping at the foot of the ladder with a load of skins on his back that he was carrying up to the loft.

Through the open door in the gable little Em was visible, her feet dangling from the high bench on which she sat.

The room, once a storeroom, had been divided by a row of mealie bags into two parts--the back being Bonaparte's bedroom, the front his schoolroom.
"Lyndall made him angry," said the girl tearfully; "and he has given me the fourteenth of John to learn.

He says he will teach me to behave myself when Lyndall troubles him." "What did she do ?" asked the boy.
"You see," said Em, hopelessly turning the leaves, "whenever he talks she looks out at the door, as though she did not hear him.

Today she asked him what the signs of the Zodiac were, and he said he was surprised that she should ask him; it was not a fit and proper thing for little girls to talk about.