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Show Page 151 field. It was plain he had lost his senses, for he pranced about, his thin arms waving wildly in the air about his tufted head, his legs flailing out on all sides. And then the usually quiet man whooped like an Indian. He was still for a moment, his head raised and spinning from side to side upon his neck. Then he commenced once again to leap about. His gamboling and cavorting would have been very amusing in one usually so dull had we not deemed him daft. As Edward drew nearer, squeals and chortles burst from his lips, which we could see were drawn back from his teeth in an oafish leer. His eyes seemed immense in his head and now and then rolled backward into his skull. "Take care, Sarah," warned Margaret, as Edward came nearer. "Perhaps he means us harm." I remembered with sudden unease the children I had left seated under the maple tree. Running back to them, I dismissed the class and ordered them home. "Blow me!" said Twig, when he followed me back to Margaret and saw Edward prancing about. "The man is tainted in the head." By that time Walter had heard the noise and he and Richard Dolphenby came running from the field where they had been hilling up tobacco. They circled round Edward, their hoes ever at the ready should he choose to attack them. But we soon realized Edward was a happy fool who wished no one harm. He continued to gambol about until at last he |