Down to poor places.


This, however, was so near sense that he thought it could not be
really what they did sing.



CHAPTER XXVI

DIAMOND TAKES A FARE THE WRONG WAY RIGHT


THE next morning Diamond was up almost as early as before. He had nothing
to fear from his mother now, and made no secret of what he was about.
By the time he reached the stable, several of the men were there.
They asked him a good many questions as to his luck the day before,
and he told them all they wanted to know. But when he proceeded
to harness the old horse, they pushed him aside with rough kindness,
called him a baby, and began to do it all for him. So Diamond
ran in and had another mouthful of tea and bread and butter;
and although he had never been so tired as he was the night before,
he started quite fresh this morning. It was a cloudy day,
and the wind blew hard from the north--so hard sometimes that,
perched on the box with just his toes touching the ground,
Diamond wished that he had some kind of strap to fasten himself
down with lest he should be blown away. But he did not really
mind it.

His head was full of the dream he had dreamed; but it did not make