17/26 Gee-up, gee-up, crack your whip, Houpet, and make them gallop as fast as you can." Off they set--they went nice and fast certainly, but not so fast but that the children could admire the beautiful feathery foliage as they passed. They drove through the forest--for the trees that Hugh had so admired were those of a forest--on and on, swiftly but yet smoothly; never in his life had Hugh felt any motion so delightful. "I never should have thought he could drive so well. How does he know the road, Jeanne ?" "There isn't any road, so he doesn't need to know it," said Jeanne. |