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"The Bull" is a plain, square, ashed building, with a

sloping roof, and before the door an open portico, wherein are

set two seats on which oneof ale at one's elbow and watch the winding road, the

thatched cottages bowered in roses, or the quiver of distant

trees where the red, conical roof of soreen Or one may close one's eyes

and hark to the chirp of the ss under the eaves, the

distant lowing of cows, or the clink of hammers from the smithy

across the way

And presently, as we sat there drowsing in the sun, to us came

one from the "tap," a bullet-headed fellow, sreat of jaw, albeit he was beco nodded to me, sat him down beside the

Ancient, and addressed hiain, Gaffer!"

"Ah! I knowed 'twould co his head, "I knowed as 'e'd never last the h," said the

bullet-headed man, whom I discovered to be the landlord of "The

Bull"--"seemed nice and quiet, and nothin' out o' the hen,