[Daal_support] Ob began his clumsy dance again. Betty brok

[Qualia]

 a descent into the valley for some miles, and almost by a direct road, and then around a sharp turn and up the grade by a branch
road to the village where Dr. Pevy lived. Betty was sure she would not lose her way; the question
was, could she cling to the saddle and keep the mare on her feet until the
first exuberance of Ida's spirit was controlled? The condition of the road did not so much matter, for once
the mare found that

she did not slip on the crust she trod the way firmly and with
perfect confidence. "She is a dear--she undoubtedly

is," Betty thought. "But I feel just as though I were being run away with by a steam engine and did not know how to close the throttle or reverse
the engine. Dear me!" She might well say "dear me." Uncle Dick would surely have been much worried for
her safety if he could
know what she was doing. Betty by no means appreciated in
full her danger. Indeed, she scarcely thought of danger. Ida Bellethorne seemed
as sure-footed as a chamois. Her calks threw bits of ice-crust
behind her, and she never slipped nor slid. There was nobody

on the road. There was not even the mark of a sledge, although along the ditch were the shuffling prints

of snowshoes. Some pedestrian had gone this way in the early morning. This was not the road by which Betty and her friends had been transported
by Mr. Jaroth. There was not even a hut like Bill Kedders' beside it. In places the thick woods verged right on the track
on either side and in these tunnels it seemed to be already dusk. It flashed into
Betty's mind that there might

be savage animals in these thick woods. Bears, and wild cats, and perhaps even the larger Canadian lynx, might be
hovering in the dark wood. It would not be pleasant to have one of those animals spring out at one, perhaps from an overhanging limb, as

the little mare and her rider dashed beneath! "Just the same,"
t
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: image/bmp
Size: 10768 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : http://www.iis.sinica.edu.tw/pipermail/daal_support/attachments/20100319/0482c612/attachment.bin