“It’s no disgrace to surrender to a superior force. I am yours to command. But I stipulate that you two stand by me.”
Chicken Little gave a bounce in her saddle to emphasize her delight and Calico took this as a hint to go on.
“Whoa, Calico! Thank you–bushels! Oh, I just know we’ll have the best time! Would you mind if we children all went with you because nobody’s going to be willing to be left out?”
“I can take five nicely and have plenty of room for guns and lunch baskets besides. By the way, please tell your mother that Wing Fan will never forgive me if he is not permitted to get up the lunch for all the young people at the very least.”
112“Have you a gun with you?” he asked Sherm as they were going.
“No, but Ernest said I might take his.”
“I have a new shotgun. I should be glad if you would share it with me.”
They found Alice and Dick, Marian, Katie, Gertie and Jilly, not to mention Huz and Buz, waiting for them on the Morton side of the ford.
“What luck?”
Sherm didn’t give Jane a chance to reply.