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"Yes," said Cardo, "I always thought it was a thicket, though I often

roamed the other side of the stream And now the dear little dell is

haunted by a sweet fairy, eaves her spells and draws me here Oh,

Val her head over a moon-daisy, from which she

drew the petals one by one "Loves me not," she said, as she held the

last up for Cardo's inspection with a mischievous s her nearer to him, "for if

as love

never existed Look once more into my eyes, cariad anwl, and tell

me you too feel the sa irl leant her cheek confidingly on his breast, but when he

endeavoured to draw her closer and press a kiss upon the sweet er at hih in a week,

whatever--indeed, indeed, you shan't haveinto the hazel copse, and looking laughingly at hih its branches "Oh, the cross man," she said, "and the

dissatisfied Sain"

"Coin to think you are

after all a fairy or a wood nyible, what is that?" she said, returning to his side with a

little pucker on her brow "Oh, if you begin to call ood," as Cardo grasped her hand, "do you

hear, and not ask for kisses and things"