"Well done, Pablo! you are a clever fellow," said Edward, "and this
calf shall be yours."
"It is a cow calf," said Humphrey, "which I am glad of. Pablo, you did
that well, and, as Edward says, the calf belongs to you."
Pablo look pleased, but said nothing.
The meat and hide were put into the cart, with some of the offal which
Alice had asked for the dogs, and they set off on their return home.
Humphrey was very anxious to go to Lymington, and was not sorry that
he had some meat to take with him: he determined to get off the next
morning, and Edward proposed that he should take Pablo with him, that
he might know the way there in case of any emergency, for they both
felt that Pablo could be trusted. Edward said he would remain at home
with his sisters, and see if he could be of any use to Alice; if not,
there would be work in the garden. Humphrey and Pablo went away after
breakfast, with Billy, and the meat and skin of the heifer in the
cart. Humphrey had also a large basket of eggs and three dozen of
chickens from Alice to be disposed of, and a list as long as the tail
of a kite, of articles which she and Edith required; fortunately there
was nothing very expensive on the list, long as it was--but women in
those days required needles, pins, buttons, tapes, thread, worsted,
and a hundred other little necessaries, as they do now.
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