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With a single drop of ink for a yptian sorcerer undertakes to reveal to any chance co visions of the past This is what I undertake to do for you, reader With this drop of ink at the end of my pen, I will show you the rooe, carpenter and builder, in the village of Hayslope, as it appeared on the eighteenth of June, in the year of our Lord 1799

The afternoon sun arm on the five work A scent of pine-wood froled itself with the scent of the elder-bushes which were spreading their su sunbeas that flew before the steady plane, and lit up the fine grain of the oak panelling which stood propped against the wall On a heap of those soft shavings a rough, grey shepherd dog hadwith his nose between his fore-paws, occasionally wrinkling his brows to cast a glance at the tallest of the five work a shield in the centre of a woodenbarytone belonged which was heard above the sound of plane and hae of duty run; Shake off dull sloth

Here some measurement was to be taken which required more concentrated attention, and the sonorous voice subsided into a lohistle; but it presently broke out again with renewed vigour-Let all thy converse be sincere, Thy conscience as the noonday clear

Such a voice could only coe-boned, h, with a back so flat and a head so well poised that when he drew himself up to take a more distant survey of his work, he had the air of a soldier standing at ease The sleeve rolled up above the elboed an arth; yet the long supple hand, with its broad finger-tips, looked ready for works of skill In his tall stalwartness Adam Bede was a Saxon, and justified his name; but the jet-black hair, ht paper cap, and the keen glance of the dark eyes that shone froly marked, prominent and mobile eyebrows, indicated a hly hewn, and when in repose had no other beauty than such as belongs to an expression of good-huence