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Hearing the Ancient chuckle gleefully, I glanced up to find hie, who stood with folded ar us froht they gleaht

"Co forward, "table's

ready--let's sit down an' eat--faintin' an' famishin' away, I be!"

So we presently sat down, all three of us, while Prudence carved

and supplied our wants, as only Prudence could

And after a while, our hunger being appeased, I took out e theirs likewise, and together

we filled them, slowly and carefully, as pipes should be filled,

while Prudence folded a long, paper spill ith to light therandfather's

churchwarden Nohile she was lighting e, took thence a glowing

coal with the tongs, thus doing the office for hi, and the spill was dropped

or ever ht; then she turned swiftly away,

and began replacing the plates and knives and forks in her basket

"Be you'ly, for

his pipe was in full blast

"Yes, gran'fer"

"Then tell Si in 'arf an hour or so, will