174 LUCY AMONG THE MOUNTAINS.

the pail, and Lucy and her mother went back
up the ravine to the road, while Robert sailed
back on his raft behind the point of land ; for he
said that he must put the raft away where it
belonged.

Robert did not come back to the mouth of the
brook again, but he climbed up the bank into the
road, at the place where he fastened the raft.
Lucy and her mother sat down upon the end of
one of the great logs, on the side of the bridge,
and waited for Robert to catch the horse, and
harness him. The horse was grazing by the side
of the road, at a little distance from the bridge ;
but not on the side where Robert was coming.
Robert therefore had to go across the bridge, to
catch him. As he was passing by Lucy and
her mother, he put his hand into his pocket, and
took out something folded up in a piece of brown
paper.

“Ts that the salt?” said Lucy.

“ Yes,” said Robert.

So Robert opened the paper, and began to call
out to the horse, —

“ Hero! Hero! Hero! Hero!”

Hero paid no attention to the call, but went
on quietly cropping the grass.

“Hero! Hero! Hero! Hero!” said Robert,
walking along towards him.

Hero lifted up his head, turned it deliberately
towards Robert, looked at him a moment, and
then put it down again. He took two more