start for home with those beautiful geese in their keeping. And at last it
came.

"I wonder if my goose will be a little lonely," said Tattine, as they all
stood about, watching Patrick nail on the laths.

"Faith and it will thin," said Mrs. Kirk. "It never came to my moind that they
wouldn't all three be together. Here's little Grey-wing to keep Blue-ribbon
company," and Mrs. Kirk seized one of the smaller geese that happened to be
near her, and squeezed it into the cage through the small opening that was
left.

"Well, if you can spare it, I think that is better, Mrs. Kirk, because
everything has a companion over at our place. We have two cats, two pairs of
puppies, two little bay horses, and two greys, and two everything, but as
there's only one of me I am friends with them all--"

"Bless your heart, but I'm glad you thought to mintion it," and then Patrick
and Mrs. Kirk gave each little extended hand a hearty shake, and the
children--declaring over and over that "they had a lovely time and were so
much obliged for the geese"--climbed into the cart and set off for home.

"I'd go the short cut by the ford," advised Patrick; "it looks like we might
get a shower by sunset."

"Yes, I think we would better," said Rudolph, glancing toward the clouds in
the west Rudolph prided himself on his ability to forecast the weather, and
was generally able to tell correctly when a shower was pretty sure to come and
when it was likely to "go round."