Then she journeyed along the banks, looking for new flowers,
and over the stepping stones to the opposite shore, and up the hill to
the strip of brush, returning with a handful of showy wild blossoms.
Next, she visited the stable yard, and watched Timotheus and Maguffin
polishing up the waggonette and the harness of the horses. The colonel
was there, and, in answer to Marjorie's enquiry regarding his interest
in the scene, said: "You are not going to leave me behind, you little
puss, although you did not invite me. I have invited myself, and am
going to accompany you on hohseback."
"Are you going to take Guff too, colonel?"
"Who is Guff, my deah?"
"Don't you know Guff?"
"No; I am not awahe that I do."
"Oh Guffee am de niggah
Wif de tah on his heel;
He done trabble roun' so libely
Dat he's wuff a mighty deal."
"You do not shuhly mean Maguffin?"
"Of course I do; who else could be Guff?"
"No, I shall not take Maguffin, seeing we come right back. Had we been
going to put up anywheah, of couhse, he would have been indispensable."
"What a funny name! Do you mean the waggonette?"
"By what, Mahjohie?"
"By this fencepail?"
"Silly child, I did not say that.
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