CHAPTER IX.
RADIATION.
When Rollo awoke the next morning, he found that the storm was over, and he was very glad to see that there was a prospect of a pleasant ride home. He heard a sound as of voices in the yard, under the window of the chamber where he slept. He looked out, and saw a large yard near the stables, with a pump upon one side of it. Before the pump was a large trough, nearly full of water. At one end of the trough there was a cow drinking. Jonas was coming from one of the stables leading a horse. He was going to let him drink. There was a boy at the pump, at work pumping water, to keep the trough full while the animals were drinking.
“I mean to go down there,” said Rollo to himself.
He accordingly finished dressing himself as soon as he could, and went down into the yard.
“Let me pump,” said Rollo to the boy.
“Well,” said the boy, “and I’ll go and be putting down the hay.”
So the boy left Rollo at the pump, and went off towards the stable.
“What does he mean by putting down the hay?” said Rollo to Jonas. For Jonas had by this time come to the trough, and his horse was beginning to drink.
“You pump too fast, Rollo,” said Jonas; “you make the trough run over.”
“Well,” said Rollo, “and does that do any hurt?”