them now. I thought he would have tossed Duke, when Neptune ran between them, and the bull turned on him. It seemed then as if Neptune must be killed, for the bull was so large and fierce; and as Neptune barked and ran at it, it bellowed and tried to toss him. One of the sheep-dogs had heard Nep bark, and came rushing into the field, to help also, and, between them, they drove the bull right away from the children. I could not look at the fight between the bull and the dogs, for I could only think of Duke and Winifred. Edith had hold already of Dick and Nellie Holt, who had run towards her, and she was taking them out of the field, so that they should be safe; but Winifred, who was still holding Ida tightly in her arms, could not run as fast as the others, and Duke had waited for her.

He was dragging her along, and I was just up to them, when, all of a sudden, the bull got away from the dogs, reared on his hind legs, and made a bolt at us. In a minute the dogs were between the children and bull again. I was on the other side of it. Duke was very brave. He flourished a stick in one hand, and with the other tried to pull Winny on. I was telling Nep what to do, which way to drive the bull, so that I could get by, and Duke could then have passed easily, but Winny would not come. She dragged her hand away from his, and ran back towards the brook, and now she ran very fast.

She was so frightened, that she did not know what she was doing. We screamed after her to come back again, to stop; but she did not seem to hear us. The more we called to her, the faster we ran after her, the faster

she ran away from us. She must have thought that Duke and I were the bull, for she would not even look round. I was almost up to her I had nearly hold of her frock, when we heard a dreadful splash, and saw Winifred tumble into the water.

The dogs had, by this time, driven the bull out of our field into another, where some men, hearing the barking and missing the bull, had come and caught it with a noose; so that danger was over, and if only Winny had not run away from us, no harm would have come to her. But, poor little frightened thing, I really do not think that she could stop running till she fell.

Duke was taking off his coat.

"What are you doing?" I asked.

"I'm going in to fetch Winny out," he answered. "But you are so little," I said; "you could not pull her out if you went in. I will go."

In another second both Marmaduke and I would have been in the water, but Neptune had heard the splash too; and as I spoke he came towards us with a bound, and, jumping into the brook, he had hold of Winny in a second and brought her out. The brook was not deep, but Winny had fallen in at the very deepest part, and the water had almost covered her. Dear Neptune, how good he was!

I sat down on the grass, and he brought Winny and laid her on my lap.

Oh dear! I thought she was dead, for she was cold like mother had been, and her eyes were shut.

She

EDITH had not noticed Winny tumble into the brook, but she was with us soon after she was taken out. had seen the men catch the bull and go away leading the fierce animal-that was how we knew that he was caught.

Edith said we had better rub Winifred, and then she might get warm again. I took off one of my petticoats and Edith took off one of hers, and we wrapped them round Winny, when we had removed her wet clothes. Marmaduke had run off home to fetch nurse, and tell her what had happened.

I carried Winny across one field and Edith carried her across another; but she was so heavy, that we could get no further, so we sat down again to wait till

nurse came.

Neptune had disappeared. We did not know where he had gone. Nurse told us afterwards that he ran home all dripping with water, and pulled at her dress till she came out. She thought at once that something was wrong, and asked John what he thought. He looked very grave, and said she had better follow the dog