The Haunted Hound; (1950)
“She bounced onee halfway down him, leapfrogged again, and hit the ground doing one hundred and six miles an hour. Why, she beat that bull to a pine sapling by one snort. There wasn't a limb on that pine closer than twenty feet from the ground, but Judy went right up that clean trunk like she was in an elevator. And the next thing that bull knew was, she was sitting on that limb chunking him with pine cones. But you, Jonathan, next time Just squuch up on the ground.'' ''How'd she get down?" Jona...than asked.
''I had to get a plowline and let her down." ''Shucks," Judy said. ''If you'd waited until after I got over being scared, I could have come down all right. But you wouldn't give me time to get over shaking." Jonathan glanced at her. His own knees had been shaking for a minute or so and chills had been running up and down his spine. He knew it was silly because the danger was all over, but he couldn't help it.
"Isn't that the way it happens to you?" Judy asked him.MoreLess
''I had to get a plowline and let her down." ''Shucks," Judy said. ''If you'd waited until after I got over being scared, I could have come down all right. But you wouldn't give me time to get over shaking." Jonathan glanced at her. His own knees had been shaking for a minute or so and chills had been running up and down his spine. He knew it was silly because the danger was all over, but he couldn't help it.
"Isn't that the way it happens to you?" Judy asked him.MoreLess
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