Annie drank a little, and then said, with a nervous laugh: "It is very silly of me.

But I feel better now.

My legs seemed to give way, altogether." "It was not silly at all," Dick said.

"You have held on most bravely.
I can tell you there are not many girls who would have ridden four or five and twenty miles, the first time they sat on a horse.

Why, I can tell you the first time I mounted, I did not do a quarter as much, and I was so stiff I could hardly walk, when I got down.