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"Trade!" said she "I'd be bound to learn it in two hours"

"Oh no, you wouldn't, Mrs Marty" Winterborne held down his lantern,

and examined the cleanly split hazels as they lay "Marty," he said,

with dry admiration, "your father with his forty years of practice

never ood for the

thatching of houses--they are good enough for the furniture But I

won't tell Let me look at your hands--your poor hands!"

He had a kindly manner of a quietly severe tone; and when she seemed

reluctant to show her hands, he took hold of one and exaers were blistered

"They'll get harder in time," she said "For if father continues ill,

I shall have to go on wi' it Now I'll help put 'e set down his lantern, lifted her as she

was about to stoop over the bundles, placed her behind hi up the bundles himself "Rather than you should do it I