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I was yet revolving the , and glancing up, beheld a country fellow approaching down a side lane He wore a wide-eaved hat and his smock was neashed and speckless; but that which drew and held ht me to a sudden stand, was the bundle he bore wrapped in a fair, white clout So, withonto turn his head, he espied ain A small man he ith rosy face, little,mouth

"Goo' ht, master!"

"Aye!" says I, and ue--the like of which I had not heard these ht of that white-clouted bundle naith sharper tooth "What have ye here?" I questioned, touching this with my staff

"Nou't but , "I think not!"

"Aye, but it be, master!" he nodded "Bread and beef wi' a mossel of cheese like, 's ever was!"

"Bread!" says I "Beef! Cheese! Liar--here is no dinner o' yours!"

"Aye,"My very own dinner cut by my very own darter, beef an' bread an' a mossel o' cheese--I take my bible oath t' it, I do--bread an' beef an' a mossel--"

"Show ood half-loaf, a thick slice of roast beef and a slab of yellow cheese

"Ha, man!" quoth I 'twixt shut teeth "So you lied to me then"

"Lied to 'ee, master?" says he faintly

"You told me 'twas your dinner!"

"Aye, and so it be, so it be, I lay athering up the viands, "here's

"It is! Would ye deny it?"

"Not for aknife in my belt "Lordy, no! Only hoas I to knoere yourn, master--when my darter cut it for her very own feyther--"

"We live and we learn!" says I, turning away "What ht your name be?"

"Full-o'-j'y Tucker, ain be your loss take coive than receive Moreover, though you lack a dinner you have a daughter and a roof to shelter you and I neither one nor other--a poor, hungry rogue Methinks of the two of us you have the better of life"