How is that?"
"I have seen the women make butter, and know how, Alice; so next time
I will be with you. I suppose you did not wash your butter-milk well
out, nor put any salt in it?"
"I did not put any salt in it."
"But you must, or the butter will not keep."
It was arranged that Edward should stay at home to assist in
collecting the acorns for the pigs, and that Jacob should cross the
forest alone to see after the puppies, and he set off the next
morning. He was away two days, and then returned; said that he had a
promise of two puppies, and that he had chosen them; they were of the
same breed as Smoker, but they were only a fortnight old, and could
not be taken from the mother yet awhile, so that he had arranged to
call again when they were three or four months old, and able to follow
him across the forest. Jacob also said that he was very near being
hurt by a stag that had made at him--for at that season of the year
the stags were very dangerous and fierce--but that he had fired, and
struck off one of the animal's horns, which made it turn.
"You must be careful, Edward, how you go about the forest now."
"I have no wish to go," replied Edward; "as we can not hunt, it is no
use; but in November we shall begin again.
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