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"And do you carry the butter to market when you've made it?" said the Captain to Hetty, meanwhile

"Oh no, sir; not when it's so heavy I'h to carry it Alick takes it on horseback"

"No, I'hts But you go out a walk sos, don't you? Why don't you have a walk in the Chase soreen and pleasant? I hardly ever see you anywhere except at ho only when I'h the Chase soo to see Mrs Best, the housekeeper? I think I saw you once in the housekeeper's room"

"It isn't Mrs Best, it's Mrs Poto tea with her to-morrow afternoon"

The reason why there had been space for this tete-a-tete can only be known by looking into the back kitchen, where Totty had been discovered rubbing a stray blue-bag against her nose, and in the sao drops to fall on her afternoon pinafore But now she appeared holding her mother's hand--the end of her round nose rather shiny from a recent and hurried application of soap and water

"Here she is!" said the captain, lifting her up and setting her on the low stone shelf "Here's Totty! By the by, what's her other name? She wasn't christened Totty"

"Oh, sir, we call her sadly out of her name Charlotte's her christened narand her Lotty, and now it's got to Totty To be sure it'sthan a Christian child"

"Totty's a capital naot a pocket on?" said the captain, feeling in his oaistcoat pockets

Totty iravity lifted up her frock, and showed a tiny pink pocket at present in a state of collapse

"It dot notin' in it," she said, as she looked down at it very earnestly

"No! What a pity! Such a pretty pocket Well, I think I've got sole in it Yes! I declare I've got five little round silver things, and hear what a pretty noise they make in Totty's pink pocket" Here he shook the pocket with the five sixpences in it, and Totty showed her teeth and wrinkled her nose in great glee; but, divining that there was nothing , she jule her pocket in the hearing of Nancy, while her ell! Not to thank the captain for what he's given you I'm sure, sir, it's very kind of you; but she's spoiled sha, and there's no ell"