1 The others reproached her sharply, and they went outside.
2 Moses sprang off his perch and flapped after her, croaking loudly.
3 Mollie refused to learn any but the six letters which spelt her own name.
4 She was seen one day sitting on a roof and talking to some sparrows who were just out of her reach.
5 In the end, however, she was found hiding in her stall with her head buried among the hay in the manger.
6 Clover was a stout motherly mare approaching middle life, who had never quite got her figure back after her fourth foal.
7 One of the cows broke in the door of the store-shed with her horn and all the animals began to help themselves from the bins.
8 Even the cat suddenly leapt off a roof onto a cowman's shoulders and sank her claws in his neck, at which he yelled horribly.
9 Clover made a sort of wall round them with her great foreleg, and the ducklings nestled down inside it and promptly fell asleep.
10 She took a place near the front and began flirting her white mane, hoping to draw attention to the red ribbons it was plaited with.
11 For a moment there was great alarm; it was feared that the men might have harmed her in some way, or even carried her off with them.
12 But she always made such excellent excuses, and purred so affectionately, that it was impossible not to believe in her good intentions.
13 Mollie, it was true, was not good at getting up in the mornings, and had a way of leaving work early on the ground that there was a stone in her hoof.
14 And when the others came back from looking for her, it was to find that the stable-lad, who in fact was only stunned, had already recovered and made off.
15 She was telling them that all animals were now comrades and that any sparrow who chose could come and perch on her paw; but the sparrows kept their distance.
16 She had taken a piece of blue ribbon from Mrs. Jones's dressing-table, and was holding it against her shoulder and admiring herself in the glass in a very foolish manner.
17 The flag was run up and 'Beasts of England' was sung a number of times, then the sheep who had been killed was given a solemn funeral, a hawthorn bush being planted on her grave.
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