How had all this been done for her?
she asked herself, as she ate with a very good appetite, for she had had no food since the morning before.

She began to think the bull not so bad after all, and to wonder if it was to Fairyland he was going to take her.

And as she thought this to herself she threw her balls, which were lying beside her, up into the air, and the morning sun caught their sparkle and seemed to send it dancing back again on to her bright fair hair.

And a sudden fancy seized her.
"'Catch,' she said to the bull, throwing a ball at him as she spoke.

He tossed his head, and to her surprise the ball was caught on one of his horns.
"'Catch,' she said again, and he had caught the second.
"'Catch,' a third time.