the girl by all means.
I'm ashamed I did not think of both sides of the thing at once. I wonder
if the horse is a great eater. To be sure, if I gave Diamond two hours'
additional rest, it would be all the better for the old bones of him,
and there would be four hours extra out of the other horse. That would
give Diamond something to do every day. He could drive old Diamond after
dinner, and I could take the other horse out for six hours after tea,
or in the morning, as I found best. It might pay for the keep of both of
them,--that is, if I had good luck. I should like to oblige Mr. Raymond,
though he be rather hard, for he has been very kind to our Diamond,
wife. Hasn't he now?"

"He has indeed, Joseph," said his wife, and there the conversation
ended.

Diamond's father went the very next day to Mr. Raymond, and accepted his
proposal; so that the week after having got another stall in the same
stable, he had two horses instead of one. Oddly enough, the name of the
new horse was Ruby, for he was a very red chestnut. Diamond's name came
from a white lozenge on his forehead. Young Diamond said they were rich
now, with such a big diamond and such a big ruby.

CHAPTER XXX. NANNY'S DREAM

NANNY was not fit to be moved for some time yet, and Diamond went to see
her as often as he could. But being more regularly engaged now, seeing
he went out every day for a few hours with old Diamond, and had his baby
to mind, and one of the horses to attend to, he could not go so often as
he would have liked.

One evening, as he sat by her bedside, she said to him:

"I've had such a beautiful dream, Diamond! I should like to tell it
you."

"Oh! do," said Diamond; "I am so fond of dreams!"

"She must have been to the back of the north wind," he said to himself.

"It was a very foolish dream, you know. But somehow it was so pleasant!
What a good thing it is that you believe the dream all the time you are
in it!"

My readers must not suppose that poor Nanny was able to say what she
meant so well as I put it down here. She had never been to school, and
had heard very little else than vulgar speech until she came to the
hospital. But I have been to school, and although that could never make
me able to dream so well as Nanny, it has made me able to tell her dream
better than she could herself. And I am the more desirous of doing this
for her that I have already done the best I could for Diamond's dream,
and it would be a sham