she s like the and won t speak no nor the boy either for all my they ll only together in that of their own poor little souls i � they love one another i fancy so i there s no love lost between em in any other quarter for that matter why they re like a couple of love birds why i believe nothing would please them better than to be hung up together in a gilt cage with plenty of sweet things to eat and liberty to bill and all day see how the boy is caressing her now � he is her poor thing � i like him for it well i m sick of all this myself you could hardly make greater fuss if i had hit you i perhaps i should not make so much inasmuch as you did it unto the least of these little ones you did it unto me i this man speaks like an angel i cried suddenly the if you say so again ni put my fist in your eye i can t help it if you do i believe christ and the would hare talked just in the way he does where there s jealousy there s love said smiling at each in turn come added he there s the church clock striking and we are making no progress when i started just now i was eager to go towards people i care for very much but now i have changed my mind and i shall sit here till you have granted a request of mine you ll waste your time oh no it will not be wasted if it takes me the whole day to bend your will to mine the day will have been well spent he smiled in s face come what an fellow you are said he pleasantly and laying his hand lightly on his shoulder � tell ye what i cried suddenly while the expression of his face changed all at once � you re the chap ever i fell in and with in all my born days aye that you are and yet i like ye laughed yes i do and there s my hand it now then � what do you want i want you to promise never to chain those little creatures again but what and if they stray they will not they shall not and to who instantly towards him accompanied by the boy he began a kind of communication prompted by the quick instinct of human and divine affection which she by the same clue as readily understood at first she evidently from what he was proposing to her but at length yielding entire consent she stepped forward to took his hand his foot placed them first one then the other on her little neck knelt kissed the hem of his coat and then went through the same show of submission to the boy her exactly though less therefore less i m fairly beat now cried with a the short laugh and then brushing his hand across his eyes come you young � and he lifted them up nd kissed one after the other now we re friends all round said he in high good humour so we ll strike our camp without more delay and i own i m heartily glad not to have to go back to look after those chains are you going our road master yes for a mile or two said and if you will put my bag in the cart i ll carry the little girl on my shoulder xiv the child must be covered up or people will see her said whereon was into a of coarse canvas and her head was covered by a large coarse straw hat as fastened the button of her collar she gently and timidly his hand � the hand that had flung the stone come now don t be too said he the of the speech was by his kindly patting her cheek and lifting her up on s shoulder i do believe you ve found me the secret of managing her cried he as the set forth with and seated on the the baggage it was a lucky chance after all til at threw you in my way are you going to the fair no i turn oflf a few miles hence how came you to be sleeping in the open air last night was everybody in the village gone to bed not everybody but they would not take me in beds full perhaps on account of the fair no they had been set against me set against you for what reason his tale became interested in it and asked him many questions the adventures of the drew him out of himself they were simply but told and had always the power of winning his hearers attention and sympathy as long as he clear of anything that did not provoke the old quarrel of the natural heart against god � just as st paul found an attentive among the excited jews of till he began to speak of the privileges to the they gave home sickness � � him audience unto that word and then lifted up their voices and cried away with such a fellow the earth for it is not fit that he should live i a pause at length ensued during which g in a train of deep thought had no disposition to interrupt it the silence however was softly broken by a low singing sound as of a little bird over his head and patted his cheeks to let him know how happy she was and then left off her you make me wish to see at length said abruptly perhaps we may go there another summer and so on through into italy may be as great or greater wonders there than here resumed the story of his native land it 