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The Dame's vain wishes were cut short by shrieks froene was discovered up to his ankles in the black ooze of the horse-pond, waving a little stick in defiance of an angry gander, hite outspread wings, snake-like neck, bent and protruded, and frightful screams and hisses, was no bad representation of his na higed out of the pond, breathlessly explaining that he only wanted to look at the goslings when the stupid geese cackled and the gander wanted to fly at his eyes "And I didn't see where I was going, for I had to keep hiry?" he concluded, ruefully surveying the dainty little stockings and shoes coated with black mud

But before the buckled shoon had been scraped, or the hosen washed and dried, the cheerful memory of boyhood had convinced itself that the eneht by his estion that the affair had been retribution for his constant oblivion of Coleth"

They went ho been directed by Mrs Jewel to a field bordered by a copse, where grew thesplendid rubies in their coats; and in due ti with the innocent excitement of their adventures Harriet was the first to proclaim that they had seen a horseman who h theof the kitchen where I waspuff paste"

"He called then! Did my papa see hi under the hands and razor of Pale?"

"He left his coued"

"Is he at the Great House? Will he call again?"

"He is on his way to ether with a brother office, who is related tothat their road led the a diversion to see her It was only from her that Sir Amyas understood how close he was to his mother's property, for ative"