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"What is that crested bird upon yonder bough," she asked,--"the one that

gave the piercing cry?"

"A kingfisher," he answered, "and cousin to the halcyon of the ancients

If, when next you go to sea, you take its feathers with you, you need have

no fear of storms"

A tree, leafless, but purplish pink with blooave it to her "It is the Judas-tree," he

told her "Iscariot hanged himself thereon"

Around the trunk of a beech a lizard ran like a green flae white butterflies went past

thebird whirred into the heart of a wild honeysuckle that

had hasted to bloolish forests!" she said

"I could love these best What are all those broad-leaved plants with the

white, waxen flowers?"

"May-apples So, nor

kill the wight that plucks theather them for you?"

"I will not trouble you," she answered, and presently turned aside to pull

theure and lifted his brows; then,

quickening his pace until he was up with the coach, he spoke to the negro