If this is n't like him nothing ever was . He was always doing odd things and thinking they were all right . And now he 's off west and here is the horse . If it were a cat or a dog -- but a horse ! '' `` Your four-acre field will come in handy now , '' said Cynthia Ann jestingly . `` So it will . '' Miss Cordelia spoke absently . `` The very thing ! Yes , I 'll put him in there . '' `` But you do n't really mean that you 're going to keep the horse , are you ? '' protested Cynthia Ann . `` Why , he is no good to you -- and think of the expense of feeding him ! '' `` I 'll keep him for a while , '' said Miss Cordelia briskly . `` As you say , there is the four-acre field . It will keep him in eating for a while . I always knew that field had a mission . Poor John Drew ! I 'd like to oblige him for old times ' sake , as he says , although this is as crazy as anything he ever did . But I have a plan . Meanwhile , I ca n't feed Nap on geraniums . ''
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