“So could I.”
“I am going down to his house to get a drink of water,” continued Flora.
“I wouldn’t go there,” said Frank.
“I am not afraid of him,” replied the brave little girl. “I will be kind to him, and I know he won’t hurt me. I don’t believe he will even scold at me. If he does I can go away, you know.”
“Better go to the spring.”
“Besides, when I get down there, I mean to ask him to tell us a story.”
“He will bite your head off if you do,” said Katy Green.
“I don’t believe he will; at any rate, I shall try him. If you don’t want to go, you may stay where you are.”
“I will go, too,” said Nellie.
The children talked it over a little while, and they concluded that Flora and Nellie should go alone, and that the others should wait in the road for them.