"
So Twinkleheels spoke to Bright and Broad the very next day, when he met
them in the barnyard. While he told them what the bays had said to him
they chewed their cuds and listened with a dreamy look in their great,
mild eyes.
Twinkleheels paused and waited for them to speak. But they said nothing.
Their jaws moved steadily as they chewed; but they said never a word.
"Can't you answer when you're spoken to?" Twinkleheels cried at last.
"Yes!" they said, speaking as one--for they always did everything
together. "Yes! But you haven't asked us a question."
"Is this true--what the bays told me about you?" he snapped.
"We can't deny it," they chanted.
Twinkleheels was never more surprised.
XII
NO SCHOOL TO-DAY
And that night it snowed. In the morning, when Johnnie Green crawled
from his bed and looked out of the window he could scarcely see the
barn. A driving white veil flickered across the farmyard. The wind
howled. The blinds rattled. Even the whole house shook now and then as a
mighty blast rocked it.
It was just the sort of weather to suit Johnnie Green.
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