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"O Martin," says she, turning the pot this way and that, "O Martin, 'tis wonderful--"

"'Tis an abomination!" quoth I

"And 'twill hold water!"

"'Tis like an ill drea, Martin"

"True, 'tis the only s possess, they are like stone--watch now!" And here, to prove h indeed I chose a soft place for it

"And they will be so easy to carry with these handles, and--hat have you there?" Saying which she sets down the pot, gently as it had been an egg-shell, and comes to me; whereupon I showed her my posy, and I ," says I, "and thought--your birthday--they ht pleasure you a little,thes, I love the the them for me, Martin!" says she, her face hidden in the flowers, "Indeed you are very good to o, that boy who used to brandish his rusty sword and vow he'd suffer no evil to coht and slay onhair even then!" says I

"And he made your lip bleed, Martin"

"And I hit him on the nose!" says I

"And he ran away, Martin"

"And you bathed my lip in the pool and afterwards you--you--"

"Yes I did, Martin Though 'tis a long tiet!" says I "Shall you?"

Here she buries her face in her flowers again

"As to the pots, Martin, there are four quite unbroken, will you help e, breakfast will be ready"

"Breakfast is a sord!" quoth I "And as to these things, if you will have theood!"

And thus, she with her flowers and I with the gallipots, we came to our habitation

"What do ork at to-day?" she questioned as we rose fro meal

"To-day I make you a pair of shoes"

"How may I aid you, Martin?"

"In a thousand ways," says I, and I plucked a great fan-shaped leaf that grew adjacent "First sit you down! And now givebefore her, I traced out the shape of her foot upon the leaf and got no further for a while, so that presently she goes about her household duties leavingout how II sat scheht achieve my purpose, and the end of it was this: (Sketch of a leaf cut to shape) This shape I cut fro upon the stool, I took off one of her shoes (and she all laughing wonder this pattern to her foot, found it well enough for shape, though so it on the table, cut therefroround to a sharp point like a cobbler's awl, I pierced it with holes and sewed it together with gut in this fashion: (Four sketches of shaped hide showing stages of , but it was long a-doing, so that having wrought steadily all day, night was at hand ere her shoes were completed, with two thicknesses of hide for soles and all sewed hty secure