"Why it ain't going to get anything but grass!" said Mickey. "Didn't you see me leading it? I can make that big old thing go where I please. Come on, be a game kid now. You ain't a baby coward girl! It's only a cow! You are going to put it on your book!" "I ain't!" sobbed Peaches. "I ain't ever going to drink milk again! I jus' bet the _milk_ will _get_ me!" "Be game now!" urged Mickey. "Mary milks the cow. Baby Bobbie runs right up to her. Everything out here is big, Lily. I ran from the horses. I jumped on a fence, and Junior laughed at me." "Mickey, what did you say?" wavered Peaches. "I didn't say anything," said Mickey. "I just jumped." "Mickey, I jumped, an' I said it, both. I said it right on Peter," she bravely confessed. "Mickey, I said the worst yet! I didn't know I _did_, 'til I heard it! But Mickey, I got another chance!" Peaches wiped her eyes, tremulously glanced at the window, and still clinging to Mickey explained: "I was just telling Peter about the swearin's, an' Mickey, don't feel so bad. He won't send me back for just once. Mickey, Peter has got 'a deaf ear.' He _said_ he had! He ain't goin' to hear it when I slip a swearin's, an' Mickey, I am tryin'! Honest I'm tryin' jus' as hard, Mickey!" Mickey turned a despairing face toward Peter. "Just like she says," assured Peter. "We've all got our faults. You'll have to forgive her Mickey." "Me? Of course!" conceded Mickey. "But what about you? You don't want your nice little children to hear bad words." "Well," said Peter, "don't make too much of it! It's likely there are no words she can say that my children don't know. Just ignore and forget it! She won't do it often. I'm sure she won't!" "Are you sure you won't, Miss?" demanded Mickey. "Sure!" said Peaches, and in an effort to change the subject: "Mickey, is that cow out there yet?" "No. Junior took her back to the barnyard." "Mickey, I ain't going to put a cow on my book; but I want to see her again, away off. Mickey, take me where I can see. You said last night you would." "But the horses are bigger than the cows. You'll get scared again, and with scaring and crying you'll be so bad off your back won't get any better all day, and to-morrow I got to leave you and go to work." "Then I'll see all the things to-day, an' to-morrow I'll think about them 'til you come back. Please Mickey! If things don't get Bobbie an' Mary, they won't get me!" "That's a game little girl!" said Mickey. "All right, I'll take you. But you ought to have----" "Have what Mickey?" she inquired, instantly alert. "Well never you mind what," said Mickey. "You be a good girl and lie still, so your back will be better, and watch the bundle I'll bring home to-morrow night." Peaches shivered in delight. Mickey proceeded slowly, followed by the entire family. "Mickey, it's so big!" she marvelled. "Everything is so far away, an' so big!" "Now isn't it!" agreed Mickey. "You see it's like I told you. Now let me show you the garden."