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How long I slept I have no idea, but when I openeddown on me from a cloudless heaven; the

wind also had died away; it seeht

were not to be fulfilled, and for this I was sufficiently grateful

Now as I lay, blinking up to the moon, I presently noticed that we

had cole

of harness and creak of the wheels to reco waited vainly so what could cause the delay, I sat up and looked about me

The first object my eyes encountered was a haystack and, beyond

that, another, with, a little to one side, a row of barns, and

again beyond these, a great, ra farmhouse Evidently the

wain had reached its destination, wherever that etful of ht so excellent an exa the loose hay over me, closedwas gradual I at first beca with a certain ularity,

thatof Little by little,

however, the sound developed itself into a somewhat mournful

melody or refrain, chanted by a not un stretchedwere these: "When a man, who muffins cries,

Cries not, when his father dies,

'Tis a proof that he would rather