e nearer him, and he watched them gravely for a time;
then he smiled, and began muttering to himself after his old fashion.
Afterward he folded his arms upon his knees, and rested his forehead on
them. And so he sat there in the yellow sunshine, muttering, muttering,
muttering, to himself.

It was not very long after when Em came out at the back door with a
towel thrown across her head, and in her hand a cup of milk.

"Ah," she said, coming close to him, "he is sleeping now. He will find
it when he wakes, and be glad of it."

She put it down upon the ground beside him. The mother-hen was at work
still among the stones, but the chickens had climbed about him and were
perching on him. One stood upon his shoulder, and rubbed its little head
softly against his black curls: another tried to balance itself on the
very edge of the old felt hat. One tiny fellow stood upon his hand, and
tried to crow; another had nestled itself down comfortably on the old
coat-sleeve and gone to sleep there.

Em did not drive them away; but she covered the glass softly at his
side. "He will wake soon," she said, "and be glad of it."

But the chickens were wiser.

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