"Is this the first time you've done it waking?""No,the second.Father took me once in Washington Park just before he came away,but the horse didn't pull like this."She smiled seraphically.
"So,boy,steady,"said the doctor soothingly,and Hector obeyed the voice.
"Did you play in the Ravine of Happiness when you were a little boy?""Where's that?"
"Where the brook is."
"Oh yes.Are you planning to take me to that brook and wet my feet,Jewel?""We've gone long past it.Don't you know?"
"I think my education has been neglected.I don't remember it.""We can go,"returned Jewel suggestively.
"Very well,we will;but first I have a couple of visits I must make."The horse was now trotting toward the park gate.As they reached it Dr.Ballard returned Anna Belle and took the lines.
Jewel gave an unconscious sigh of rapture."Trolleys and so on,you know,"explained Dr.Ballard."When you come back ten years from now you shall drive outside too.How was Essex Maid this morning?""She was all right,but grandpa took only a short ride.I guess he was a little--bit--afraid.""She's the apple of his eye,or he wouldn't have been so nervous over a trifle last evening,"remarked the doctor.
"Well,she made a great fuss,"replied Jewel."She fell down in her stall,and everything like that.""Did she really?"
"Yes.Zeke said his knees were shaking."
"But she was all right by the time Dr.Busby arrived?""Yes."