Shouts of glee followed this suggestion, and the girls, seeing
that the animal was made safe, were now running back from the
cottage to add their voices to the excitement.

Clip insisted upon helping to tie the ram - she declared he had
done his share toward making it uncomfortable for her - while
Daisy, in her timid way, wanted to do something to the "saucy
thing" for upsetting her, and Jack suggested that she "box his
horrid ears."

Cora glanced at her watch.

"If it's all the same to the gentlemen," she said, "we will
continue on our way. We have lost a full hour already."

"Lost!" repeated Walter meaningly.

"She said `lost,'" faltered Ed with similar intent.

"Not actually lost," corrected Cora, "but at least dropped out of
our itinerary."

"We were due ten miles ahead now," sighed Maud in her wistful way.

"Too bad, too bad," whimpered Jack, who was still pulling at the
ram's rope. "But it was not our fault, girls. Now, Daisy, do you
think you can run your machine without taking in any more
circuses? We have examined your car, and it is intact - not so
much as a footprint did the naughty beast leave."