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"Go to bed, all of you," she said. "We're all tired. Yes, I know it's early, Philip, you don't need to tell me that — but we've had a long day, and this mountain air is very strong. We shall all sleep like tops tonight."

"I will get ready some creamy milk for you," began Mrs. Evans, "and you would like some buttered scones and jam to take up with you?"

"Oh, no," said Mrs. Mannering. "We simply couldn't eat a thing more tonight, thank you, Mrs. Evans."

"Oh, Mother! Of course we could eat scones and jam and drink some more of that heavenly milk," said Dinah indignantly. So they each took up a plate of scones and raspberry jam and a fat glass of creamy milk to have in bed.

There came the scampering of little hooves, and Snowy the kid appeared in the boys' bedroom. She leapt in delight onto Philip's bed.

"Gosh! Look at this! Snowy's come upstairs!" said Philip. "Have a bit of scone, Snowy?"

"I say — did we hear the kid coming up the stairs?" said Lucy-Ann, putting her head round the door of the boys' room. "Oooh, Philip! You've got her on your bed!"

"Well, she won't get off," said Philip. "As soon as I push her off, she's on again — look! Like a puppy!"

"Maa-aa-aa!" said the kid in a soft, bleating voice, and butted Philip with its head.

"Are you going to have it up here all the night?" asked Dinah, appearing in her pyjamas.

"Well, if I put it outside, it'll only come in again — and if I shut the door it will come and butt it with its head," said Philip, who had quite lost his heart to Snowy. "After all, Jack has Kiki in the room with him all night."

"Oh, I don't mind you having Snowy," said Dinah. "I just wondered what Mother would say, that's all — and Mrs. Evans."

"I shouldn't be at all surprised to hear that Mrs. Evans has got a sick cow in her room, and half a dozen hens," said Philip, arranging Snowy in the crook of his knees. "She's a woman after my own heart. Go away, you girls. I'm going to sleep. I'm very happy — full of scones and jam and milk and sleep."

Kiki made a hiccuping noise. "Pardon!" she said. This was a new thing she had learnt from somebody at Jack's school the term before. It made Mrs. Mannering cross.

"I should think Kiki's full up too," said Jack sleepily. "She pinched a whole scone, and I'm sure she's been at the raspberries again. Look at her beak! Now shut up, Kiki, I want to go to sleep."

"Pop goes the weasel, look you," said Kiki solemnly and put her head under her wing. The girls disappeared. The boys fell asleep. What a lovely beginning to a summer holiday!





Chapter 3

THE FIRST MORNING



THE next day the two girls awoke first. It was early, but somebody was already about in the yard. Lucy-Ann peeped out of the window.

"It's Effans," she said. "He must have been milking. Dinah, come here. Did you ever see such a glorious view in your life?"

The two girls knelt at the window. The sun was streaming across the valley below through the opening between two mountains, but the rest of the vale was in shadow. In the distance many mountains reared their great heads, getting bluer and bluer the further away they were. The sky was blue without a cloud.

"Holiday weather — real holiday weather!" said Dinah happily. "I hope Mother lets us go picnicking today."