the bush into the garden it i pat and cause says won t die but always get mo e and mon ah child said always read to talk when he had his pipe his band apparently enjoying the pauses more than the it n t do fa leave out the and there s nothing ray thinking when it s flowers but it s just come head what we re to do for a � can help us thought but a fence we must else ihe and things i and everything down a hard to be got at by what i can mate out o i ii tell you said ei pie clasping her hands sudden after a s thought lots o loose stones about some of ei not big and we might lay em of one another and make a wall you and me could carry the smallest and ud carry the rest � i know he would eh my precious un said � there is n t enough stones to go all round and as for yon carrying why wi little arms you could n t carry a no bigger than a you re made my dear he added with a tender � that a what mrs says o i m stronger than you think said and if there was n t stones enough lo go all why they go part o the way and ii li be easier to get sticks and things for the rest see here the big pit what a many she forward to the pit meaning to lift one of the and exhibit her strength but she started back in surprise o father just come and look here she exclaimed � come and see how the water s gone down since yesterday why the pit well to be sure said coming to her why that s the ihey ve begun on since harvest i mr s i reckon the said to me the other day when passed by cm master he said should n t wonder if we lay your bit o waste as dry as a bone it was mr he said gone the he d been taking these fields o mr how odd it to have the a large stone see i can carry thia quite well she said going along with much energy for a few step but presently letting it fall ah you re fine and strong t you said while shook her aching arms and come come let ns go and sit down on the bank against the there and have no more you might yourself child ton d need have somebody to work for you � and my arm isn t over strong uttered the last sentence slowly as if it implied more than met the ear and when they sat down on the bank to his side and hold of the arm that was not over strong held it on her lap while d again at the pipe which occupied his other arm an ash in he made a fretted screen from the sun and threw happy playful shadows all about them father said very gently r they had been sitting in silence a little while if i was to be married ought i to he married with my mother s ring gave an almost though the question ml in with though the question the of thought in his own mind and then said in a sa tone why have you been a thinking on it this last week father said talked to me about it and did be said still in the same subdued way as if he were anxious lest he should fall into the slightest that was not for s good he said he should like to be married because he was a f in and had got a deal of work now mr s given np and he goes twice a week regular to mr s and once to mr s and they re going to take him on at the and w me to be said with laughter kissing her father s as if be d want to many anybody else and you mean to have him do jou said yes some time said i don t know when everybody s but you never be lone again father said that wai what said � i could never think o taking yon away from master and i said it ud be no use if you did and he wants us all to live together bo as you need n t work a bit father only what s for own pleasure and be d be as good as n son to you � that was what he said and should vou like that said looking at her i should n t mind il father said quite simply and i should like things to be so ai you need n t work much but if it wasn t li f that i d sooner things did n t i m very happy like to b fond of me and come and see ua often an l bi pretty to you � he always does behave pretty to does n t he father child nobody could behave better said emphatically he s mother s lad but i don t want any change said i should like to go on a long long while just as we are only does want a change and he made me cry a bit � only a bit � because be said did n t care for him for if i cared for him i should want us to be married as he did eh my blessed child laying down his pipe as if it useless to to smoke any you married we ll ask mrs � we ll ask s mother what she thinks if there a right thing to do she ll come at it but there s this 