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"No, no, no! Caton pawb! man, I'll show you a prettier picture than

that She's a lovely creature! with brown velvet eyes, her forehead

all covered with little round curls"

"What! a friz?"

"Well, if you like to call it so Lovely ears and a little soft nose,

the whole surmounted by a pair of short brown horns"

"Good heavens! the woman?"

"Why, no! the cow, of course!"

"Oh, I see; the friz and the brown eyes belong to a cow then,--but what

of her mistress? My dear fellow, don't waste all your poetry on the

cow"

"As I haven't much to spare, you think Well, her mistress

is--Valmai!" and Cardo lifted his hat as he spoke

Gwynne Ellis took two or three long puffs at his pipe, and looked

curiously at Cardo, who stood looking over at the gliht in

one of the s at Dinas

"Cardo Wynne, I a to understand you; I haveits beauties properly--the only poetic

and artistic teradually awake to find

myself but a humdrum, commonplace s: earth, sea, and sky co to for and

h unable, or