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"Come—off we go!" cried Saul, "to watch the firing. Leave hold of her, Dave."

"Nay, take her along of us. She's scared of ordnance."

"Nay, let her be," said Relph, but he was in too great a hurry to be in john Douce's field to see what they did about her. He and Saul ran off together down the hill. The others decided to bring Condemnation with them—it seemed a fine, comical idea to them, much better than pinching or beating. She was so much afraid of the big guns that her eyes were bolting out of her head, and instead of screaming she only choked and gasped. So Sam and Dave each seized her round the waist, and hauled her along between them; she would not or could not walk, but hung on their arms with her legs trailing out behind her. The boys dragged her along, while the girls followed with squeals and hulloos; her head had fallen back and they laughed loudly to see it rolling and bobbing between her shoulders. Every now and then she would suddenly stiffen and stick her heels into the ground, and they would all have some fine sport getting her on again.