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disposition because his father, satisfied that he was no longer

rebellious, was in good humor with him, and had sent hireyhounds Even when he had fixed on

what he should do, there would be the task of telling his father But

it , which had to come first, was the

more difficult task:--what secular avocation on earth was there for a

young et hientlemanly, lucrative, and to be folloithout special

knowledge? Riding along the lanes by Frick in thishis pace while he reflected whether he should venture to go

round by Lowick Parsonage to call on Mary, he could see over the hedges

from one field to another Suddenly a noise roused his attention, and

on the far side of a field on his left hand he could see six or seven

an offensive

approach towards the four railway agents ere facing the across the field to join

the threatened group Fred, delayed a few allop up to the spot before the party in

s the hay had not been too pressing

after sing theirthe men in coats

before them with their hay-forks; while Caleb Garth's assistant, a lad

of seventeen, who had snatched up the spirit-level at Caleb's order,

had been knocked down and seee as runners, and Fred covered their retreat by getting

in front of the sh to throw

their chase into confusion "What do you confounded fools , and cutting right

and left with his whip "I'll swear to every one of you before the

istrate You've knocked the lad down and killed hied at the next assizes, if you

don't hed heartily as he

remembered his own phrases