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"Yes, Hannah--a far larger country than England, where they talk in

no other way"

"Well, for sure case, I knawn't how they can understand t' one

t'other: and if either o' ye went there, ye could tell what they

said, I guess?"

"We could probably tell so of what they said, but not all--

for we are not as clever as you think us, Hannah We don't speak

German, and we cannot read it without a dictionary to help us"

"And what good does it do you?"

"We mean to teach it some time--or at least the eleet ive ower studying; ye've done enough for to-

night"

"I think we have: at least I'h work fagging away at a language

with no e as this crabbed but glorious

Deutsch I wonder when St John will co now: it is just ten (looking at a

little gold watch she drew frooodness to look at the fire in the parlour?"

The woh which I die: soon I heard her stir a fire in an inner room; she

presently cao into yond' room

now: it looks so lonesome wi' the chair empty and set back in a