210 THE DRIVE TO GREAT ROCK 



Every step the horses took now was up, up ; for 

 the great rock stands very high, in a place almost 

 like a small mountain. Mrs. Todd said: " When 

 we come to the first gap in the woods we'll get out 

 and walk." 



Both Tommy and Philip had their jack-knives 

 with them, and as soon as the carriage stopped 

 they jumped out and looked about for walking- 

 sticks. Mrs. Todd and I got down next, so there 

 was only Grandmother left for the horses to pull. 

 Barney walked along by their sides with the reins 

 in his hands. 



We came to one very steep place where we all 

 stopped to rest. Tommy was ahead. He called 

 back, " Hurry up I " So Philip and I ran along, 

 even though we had just sat down on the bank. 



" Here's something almost as bright as the 

 blackbird's shoulders," Tommy said, when we 

 caught up to him. Just in front of him I spied a 

 single Red Lily. It grew all alone, and looked as 

 though it had come to the very edge of the woods 

 to peep out at the road. We all knew it was a 

 Lily, although it didn't hang its head over, like 

 the Meadow Lilies Tommy had seen by the side 

 of the strange girl. This Wild Red Lily held its 

 head up perfectly straight, and long, pointed leaves 

 grew in little circles about its stem. 



" It's the Wood Lily," Grandmother said, who 

 was passing in the carriage. " It loves the woods 

 quite as much as Meadow Lily loves the meadows." 



