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"Ay, but thou ed ousel," said the

boy, as Tressilian, having laid down his money, and half ashamed of the

folly he practised, made a careless whistle--"you must whistle louder

than that, for who knohere the s of France's stables for what I know"

"Why, you said but noas no devil," replied Tressilian

"Man or devil," said Dickie, "I see that I must summon him for you;"

and therewithal he whistled sharp and shrill, with an acuteness of sound

that alh Tressilian's brain "That is what I call

whistling," said he, after he had repeated the signal thrice; "and now

to cover, to cover, or Whitefoot will not be shod this day"

Tressilian,what the upshot of this mummery was to be, yet

satisfied there was to be some serious result, by the confidence with

which the boy had put himself in his power, suffered himself to be

conducted to that side of the little thicket of gorse and brushwood

which was farthest from the circle of stones, and there sat down; and as

it occurred to hi

his horse, he kept his hand on the boy's collar, detere for its safety