THE HOLIDAY PRIZE, 109

pail and brush were deeply embedded in a
wide stretch of stinging-nettles console him.
Hilda, who had climbed the gate also,
merely that she might watch his search, no
sooner perceived the nettles than she broke
into a fit of mirth which threatened hysterics.

 

Iie trampled savagely ainong the nettles.—, 109.

Guy would have ground his teeth had he
known how, but he had not yet mastered this
accomplishment, so he trampled savagely
among the nettles—which stung his bare