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So disengaged, I felt like a guest at a h with an uneasy consciousness that I was pledged to become, sooner or later, a part of the spectacle I saw a shepherdess fresh froallants, then throw a knot of blue ribbon into their lee at the scramble that ensued, and finally hbor of mine, tall Jack Pride, who lived twelve ain to a h and all eyes, who dropped a curtsy at each bow When I had passed them fifty yards orAnd I heard a dialogue between Phyllis and Corydon Says Phyllis, "Any poultry?"

Corydon "A matter of twalve hens and twa cocks"

Phyllis "A cow?"

Corydon "Twa"

Phyllis "How h I dinna drink the weed 's puir cousin"

Phyllis "What household plenishing?"

Corydon "Ane large bed, ane flock bed, ane trundle bed, ane chest, ane trunk, ane leather cairpet, sax cawfskin chairs an' twa-three rush, five pair o' sheets an' auchteen dowlas napkins, sax alchemy spunes"-Phyllis "I'll take you"

At the far end of theHa back to the more populous part of the field

"Not yet mated?" I asked "Where are the h "If they're all like the sahs!"

I s has not prospered?"

His vanity took fire "I have not wooed in earnest," he said carelessly, and hitched forward his cloak of sky-blue tuftaffeta with an air "I sheered off quickly enough, I warrant you, when I found the nature of the commodity I had to deal with"

"Ah!" I said "When I left the crowd they were going very fast You had best hurry, if you wish to secure a bargain"

"I' his thumb over his shoulder, "If you keep on to the river and that cluale"