"I don't believe I could sleep if I went to bed as I am, I feel all unstrung and chilled." Then her mind went back to the thought which troubled her most--"I wonder if the fowls will be really all right," she mused, anxiously.
"Oh yes, ma'am." Huldah had no doubts on that point.

"Those fellows would be afraid to come back.

Dick did give them a scare, springing out of the dark on them like that, and they're too hurt about the legs to want to walk any further than they can help, yet awhile!" "Oh yes, of course," in accents of great relief, "I'd forgotten.
They wouldn't want to come and face Dick again, and they wouldn't know but what he was mine, and always living here." A bright idea came to Huldah.

"Would you like me to let Dick out into the garden again.

He'd see that nobody came into it.
Nobody wouldn't dare touch anything with him there, I know!" The suggestion evidently pleased Mrs.Perry, and relieved her greatly.