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The blood rushed to his face I watched his fingers slowly loosening their grasp

"Tardy obedience is of the house of mutiny," I said sternly "Will you, sirrah, or will you not?"

He raised his hand and repeated the words

"Now hold her as before," I ordered, and, straightening myself in the saddle, rode on, with my eyes once more on the path before me

A mile further on, Mistress Percy stirred and raised her head frohed, as yet but half awake "Oh, the endless trees! I drea at Windsor, and then suddenly I was here in this forest, a bird, happy because I was free; and then a falcon ca down upon ain, and it changed to--What a?"

In fact, fro out a powerful voice:-"'In the merry month of May, In aForth I went, forsooth, a- in front of us, we caer He lay on his back, on the soft turf beneath an oak, with his hands clasped behind his head and his eyes upturned to the blue sky showing between leaf and branch On one knee crossed above the other sat a squirrel with a nut in its paws, and half a dozen others scareat body, like so razed an old horse, gray and gaunt, springhalt and spavined, with ribs like Death's own Its saddle and bridle adorned a li went cheerfully on:-"'Much ado there was, God ould love and she would not; said, "Never man was true"

He said, "None was false to you"'"

"Give you good-day, reverend sir!" I called "Art conning next Sunday's hyently shook off the squirrels, and getting to his feet advanced to meet us

"A toy," he declared, with a wave of his hand, "a trifle, a silly old song that careen and the sky so blue Had you come a little earlier or a little later, you would have heard the ninetieth psal for that the very queen of May was co by"