is fist upon his knee with such force that he quivered
with the pain; "yes, and he went on and made it A THOUSAND!"

"Hear, hear!" said the tranter. "Better than the history of England, my
sonnies!"

"Thank you for your story, Thomas Leaf," said grandfather William; and
then Leaf gradually sank into nothingness again.

Amid a medley of laughter, old shoes, and elder-wine, Dick and his bride
took their departure, side by side in the excellent new spring-cart which
the young tranter now possessed. The moon was just over the full,
rendering any light from lamps or their own beauties quite unnecessary to
the pair. They drove slowly along Yalbury Bottom, where the road passed
between two copses. Dick was talking to his companion.

"Fancy," he said, "why we are so happy is because there is such full
confidence between us. Ever since that time you confessed to that little
flirtation with Shiner by the river (which was really no flirtation at
all), I have thought how artless and good you must be to tell me o' such
a trifling thing, and to be so frightened about it as you were. It has
won me to tell you my every deed and word since then. We'll have no
secrets from each other, darling, will we ever?--no secret at all."

"None from to-day," said Fancy. "Hark! what's that?"

From a neighbouring thicket was suddenly heard to issue in a loud,
musical, and liquid voice--

"Tippiwit! swe-e-et! ki-ki-ki! Come hither, come hither, come hither!"

"O, 'tis the nightingale," murmured she, and thought of a secret she
would never tell.

Footnotes:

{1} This, a local expression, must be a corruption of something less
questionable.

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