They pulled on the halter, but Colleen refused to budge. Larry got up on the bank and pushed her. He even pulled her backward by the tail! Colleen didn’t seem to mind it at all. She kept right on eating the thistles.
At last Larry said, “You go on with yourself to Grannie Malone’s for the jug,
Eileen, and I’ll stay here until she finishes the thistles.”
So he sat down by the road on a stone and Eileen trotted off to Grannie’s.
Chapter Seven.
The Bog.
When Eileen got back with the jug, she found Larry still sitting beside the road. He was talking with a freckled-faced boy, and Colleen’s head was still in the thistles.