READ THE TEXT THEN ANSWER THE QUESTION Soon he came to the edge of town and a roaring brook. Across the brook lay a footbridge; but, instead of using it, he worked his way upstream round a bend and then crossed over, leaping agilely from boulder to
boulder. From the far side he looked back. Apparently no one had seen him. Scrambling up the bank, he plunged through a clump of bushes, skirted a barnyard and picked up a path through the meadows. Here, for the first time, he stopped running. There was no living thing to be seen except a herd of grazing cows. The only sound was the tinkling of their bells.