"We may as well hurry up then," said Reilly, "if I'm ever to get on the road again with my load of turf." Then they began to move on again, the cart with Terry and Reilly, and Turly riding the bare-backed donkey behind, side by side with Jocko, who seemed very glad of their company. As they turned off the high-road they saw Nurse Nancy standing at the foot of the avenue, evidently looking out for them in great anxiety. The cart stopped before her. "Oh, you terrible childher! You dreadful little girl! I wonder I am alive since six o'clock this morning!" "You were sound asleep then, Nursey. I heard you snoring. And you won't call it dreadful when you see the eggs. The only terrible thing is Jocko's knees. I'm awfully sorry about that, indeed I am. I'd rather it had been my own knees!" cried Terry, running to the back of the cart to examine poor Jocko's injuries. "The pony's knees!" shrieked Nurse, throwing up her hands and her eyes in despair. "I tell you Lally will make him all right!" said Turly. "Ponies and men don't make a row over a scratch as women do!" "If Lally cures him I'll give him all my pocket-money for a year," said Terry, wiping her own eyes and patting Jocko's nose. "Oh, here is Mr. Lally! Do you think you can cure poor Jocko's knees, Mr. Lally?" "So you're at your thricks again, Miss Terry! Sorra ever such a young lady was born in this mortial world before!" said Lally. "Now what will your gran'ma be sayin' to you this time, Miss Terry?" "Oh, Gran'ma! I hope she hasn't had her breakfast yet, Nursey. Just look at the lovely fresh eggs Mr. Reilly got me!" "An' I scourin' the counthry all round about Connolly's farm lookin' for ye!" said Michael Lally indignantly, as he examined Jocko's knees. "And have they really got plenty of eggs at Connolly's?" cried Terry. "For only three will not last very long, you know." "Here, Missus Nancy, for all the sakes will you take your childher out o' my road?" cried Lally. "A nice scoldin' I'll be gettin' over again from Madam when she hears of it." "Oh no, she won't! Not when she get's her egg, and I tell her about it," said Terry. And then Reilly gathered up his reins, laughing, and went rattling his cart of turf down the road. Lally led away the pony, and Nancy and the children returned to the house. CHAPTER VI A BRASS HELMET Madam's breakfast was ready, and there was just time to cook the new-laid egg and put it on the tray. Terry got behind the open door, and great was her delight when she heard Granny say: "Why, Nancy, you don't mean to tell me that this is a new-laid egg! Where can you have got it?" "A nice little hen laid it for you, madam," said Nancy, "and may be there's more where it come from." "That is very good," said Granny. "What are the children doing at present, Nancy?" "They're just about goin' to get their breakfast, madam." "Isn't it rather late for their breakfast?" said Granny.