The Boy's Tale
“"You're a girl and it can't be helped." Jasper saw Lady Adela's eyes tighten with anger and said, "You can follow along the bank. Come on." She stuck out her tongue at him, but she came, along the narrow, deep-trodden path along the stream that showed other people came this way and often. Around another bend the stream widened into a broad pool below steep banks. Edmund's twig had already drifted out toward the middle and he would have followed it but Lady Adela called, "You'd better see if it'...s too deep first." Edmund looked as if he were about to say that was a girl-thing to do, but Jasper dragged a long stick from a flotsam along the bank and poked out into the water. Hardly beyond where they stood, the stick went deep and still did not touch bottom. He and Edmund exchanged looks. Edmund shrugged. "Maybe we can learn to swim. Will told me he learned by being thrown into deep water. We could, too." "You'd better not," Lady Adela said. "We're not girls. We won't get our dresses wet," Edmund taunted.MoreLess
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