times,
and a bit of saffern cake when I wants it!"

So Cherry packed up her few garments, which made but a very small bundle,
and started off, after promising her father not to go too far, and to come
home soon. She had been so restless and uneasy, that the poor man thought
she was bewitched, or something. He feared, too, that she might get
carried off by pirates, for there were many of them about Cornwall in
those days, and Cherry was an attractive-looking girl, and rather flighty,
as her mother often said.

When Cherry had said 'good-bye' and kissed them all, and got outside, she
had not the slightest notion which way to go, so she took the road to
Ludgvan and Gulval, and walked on briskly enough for a time; but when she
turned round for a last look at the old home, and found that it was no
longer in sight, she felt so miserable that she had a very good mind to
turn round and go back. It was the first time she had ever been away,
and she felt very home-sick and lonesome. Indeed, the outlook was enough
to damp her spirits and even frighten her, for she had no friends to go
to, nor a situation. She did not even know where she should find shelter
that night, and she had only one penny in her pocket. However, she
started on again, and trudged along the lonely road until she came to the
four cross-roads on the Lady Downs.

Here she paused again, and rested while she tried to make up her mind
which of the four roads she should take. All around her the Downs
stretched, looking bleak and wild; and all the stories she had ever heard
of highwaymen and pirates, witches and fairies, came rushing
helter-skelter through her poor brain until she felt too terrified to walk
on or to turn back; and at last she sat down on a big stone by the side of
the road and burst out crying.

She did cry too, most bitterly, and never stopped until she had made up
her mind to retrace her steps, and go home as fast as she could go.
Having settled that, she felt much happier, and drying her eyes she
started up, only too anxious to get out of that great wilderness.
She wondered if her brothers and sisters would laugh at her. Yes, she
felt sure that they would, but she did not care, she told herself.
She would soon play them some trick that would make them laugh the other
side of their faces. Her father and mother would welcome her back gladly,
she knew.

So she turned her face towards home, and was trying not to feel ashamed of
her want