The Motor Girls on the Coast: or, The Waif From the Sea. Penrose Margaret

it makes good you can tack on another title when we’re in Chelton again,” suggested Ed.

      “What?”

      “Call it Get There and Back.”

      “I believe I will!” laughed Jack. “Sorry to delay you,” he said to the others, for they waited for him after Cora had finished telephoning.

      “It’s all right,” spoke Walter, good-naturedly. “We have plenty of time.”

      Once more they were under way. The road was now not so good, and in places positively bad. But they knew they would soon be on better ground, and on a fine highway leading into Mooreville.

      Later they were on a narrow thoroughfare, so narrow, and with such deep ditches on either side, that it would take no small skill to pass another vehicle in certain places. Then, as Cora made a turn, the road ahead being hidden by a thick growth of trees, she saw straggling along the highway a big flock of sheep, tended by a man and two beautiful collie dogs. The fleecy animals straggled and spread out over the whole road.

      “Oh dear!” Cora cried, as she slowed down. “Isn’t this provoking! We can’t get past them.”

      “Why not?” asked Eline.

      “Because they are so–so straggly. They take up the whole road, and if I tried to pass I’d be sure to run over one of them. Oh! what a shame!

      “We’ve got to take it slowly!” she called back to the twins, who were just behind her. “I can’t take a chance of threading my way through all these animals.”

      “This is tough luck!” complained Jack, as he saw what the trouble was.

      The herder looked up stolidly, puffing on a short pipe, and called to one of the dogs, who leaped off to drive back into the flock a sheep that showed a propensity to lag behind.

      “Can’t you try to pass them?” asked Eline. “I’m sure you could do it.”

      “I’d rather not,” answered Cora.

      “Don’t you dare!” cautioned Bess, who heard what was said.

      “But we’ll be late for lunch–and it has been ordered,” wailed Belle. “And I’m so hungry!”