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"`Where's young Grant and the boy?' he says

"`What! ain't they co behind too,' he says, quite itho' me and went into her kennel' "`She's not there now,' he says

"`Then,' says I, `she's gone back to ,' he says sharply; `and look here, Ike,

if you've let that boy coive you' "`Why, I'd sooner come to harm myself,' I says `It's larks, that's

what it is' "`Well,' he says, `I'll wait till twelve o'clock, and if they're not

back then youwith me and find 'em, for there is

so' "I never cared a bit about you, my lad, but I couldn't sleep no more,

and I couldn't touch a bit o' breakfast; and when twelve o'clock came,

Mrs Old Brownsmith's brother's wife had been at o off before

"We was off at twelve, though, in the light cart and with a fresh horse;

and though I expected to see you every ot

back to the public, and asked for you, and found that you hadn't been