“N – n – e – a – n….”
“I thought so. You’d do anything, wouldn’t you? Well, we’ll see,” she said as she released me from my bonds.
I jumped up and started sweeping the hungry ants from me.
“Stand still,” she said as she took a damp towel and started wiping me down. “I would have left you a while longer. It’s fun to watch you suffer, but there are three loads of hay coming early this afternoon. You’re going to have to clean out the top of the barn and then mow it away when it gets here.
“Come on. Get on back. You can ride with me back to the farm.”
When we got down to the bottom of the hill, I went right up into the hay loft and started cleaning. All the old, dried out hay was pushed out of the lower end of the barn. I knew I would have to move it all again, but I had no choice.
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