Buster also began to take a more
active interest in life. She, too, shouted as she sent a fair-sized
boulder spinning down the incline.
"My, what a racket!" cried Jane. "Harriet, shall we go join the game?"
"I am getting ready as fast as I can. You had better remain quiet for
a time yet, Hazel."
Hazel said she would. Miss Elting also lay gazing up at the sky,
following with her eyes the flight of the birds, many of which, high in
the air, were soaring toward the east to meet the coming of the day.
Harriet picked up a boulder on her way to the Slide, and, reaching
there, sent it spinning with the wrist movement peculiar to bowlers.
The boulder skipped some rods out into the pond far below them before
it sank under the water and disappeared, leaving a white trail in its
wake.
"I can do that," declared Tommy Thompson.
Janus unwound himself from his blanket and stood with his hands in
pockets, observing the jolly party.
"Don't lean over too far forward when you throw," warned Harriet.
"You jutht watch me. I'm going to make thith one thkip clear acroth
the pond. Here it goeth.
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