“Has he got a hot-water bag?”
“No—one bag wouldn’t go far, when he has several square yards of pain.”
“Are you giving him peppermint out of that bottle?”
“Ginger-tea. Just as good.”
“Is he getting old, Grandmother? David said so.”
“Not a bit too old to enjoy company, and relish his meals. And that’s all that a horse that’s worked as well as he has, ought to have asked of him.”
“How did you know he was sick?”
“I woke up feeling that something was wrong at the barn. That’s happened before.”
“And do you always find there is?”
“No, sometimes it’s what I ate for supper. Come, we’ll go back to the house now. He’s feeling better.”