demands became
sufficiently ardent and numerous, it was decided to republish the story,
with illustrations by Mr. Charles E. Brock, an artist who can be relied
upon to put new energy into a live tale or resuscitate a dead one.

At this point the author, having presumably grown in knowledge of
grammar, spelling, and punctuation, was asked to revise the text, and
being confronted with the printed page, was overcome by the temptation
to add now and then a sentence, line, or paragraph, while the charming
shade of Miss Kitty Schuyler perched on every exclamation point, begging
permission to say a trifle, just a trifle, more.

'You might allow me to explain myself just there,' she coaxed; 'and if
you have told them all I was supposed to be thinking in Winchester or
Salisbury or Oxford, why not tell them what I thought in Bath or
Peterborough or Ely? It was awfully interesting!'

Jack Copley, too, clamoured to be heard still further on the subject of
his true-love's charms, so the author yielded to this twofold pressure,
and added a few corroborative details.

The little courtship, running its placid course through sleepy cathedral
towns, has not been altered in the least by these new pages. It is only
as if the story-teller, meeting a new pair of interested eyes, had
almost unconsciously drifted into fresh confidences._

_KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN._

_This is all quite true, and anyway we have said nothing that we are a
bit ashamed of._

_KITTY SCHUYLER._

X

_JACK COPLEY._

_Their mark._

London, _July, 1901_.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

PAGE
'JACK! JACK! SAVE ME!' _Frontispiece_

'IT WOULD 'ARDLY BE A SUBSTITUTE FOR GOOSEBERRY-TART, MISS' 11

I OFFERED IT TO HER WITH DISTINGUISHED GRACE 27

I WAS DISCONCERTED AT BEING FOUND IN A DRAMSHOP ALONE 35

SHE IGNORES THE BABBLE OF CONTEMPORANEOUS LOVERS 63

'LOR', MISS!' SAID FARMER HENDRY, 'HE HAVEN'T BEEN PASTURED THERE
FOR THREE WEEKS' 93

A CATHEDRAL COURTSHIP

_She_

Winchester, _May 28, ----_,
The Royal Garden Inn.

We are doing the English cathedral towns, Aunt Celia and I. Aunt Celia
has an intense desire to improve my mind. Papa told her, when we were
leaving Cedarhur