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a fat duck with his large thumb.

over.
Wilhelm fancied he had been quite
unobserved, but then men are 50 iens,
about these things. He found Lucy
very pretty. AMI on nearer inspection
| her figure was So slim, her hair 81 dat /
and wavy. her eyes Of SO beautiful A
| blue. and there were SO many fat duchs
TO choose among. and sucn a sayory
hcap oi sausages 10 look at. that hi
marketing took quite another half hour.
Lucy was very patient, though she use
10 he sharp enough sometimes to ha,.
CLING or undecided customers. Mein.
hcrr's broken English was very hard L.
| understand, and the noise in the mar
KIT 50 great that Wilhelm had 1, come
behind the stall to he comprel,endei
AT all
How Is it that vour duck, are "a
fat (We will not try YOU with III,
Dutchman's bad English; YOU misA,
not be 50 patient a. Lucy wa>D
Il don't know : they get better feed
than the others, perhaps.
And how Is il you are so much
lresher and roster than the other girls !:
'Oh We get frcsher air. YOU know.
! hive at Grangeiy-supcr- Montcm.
Where: That's hari name -
Grange-Grange
Lucy laughed merrily, and made him
repeat the name till he could say /;
right; that took quite ten minutes.
And where Is this favored village :.
Don't YOU know: When You mr.
down IN the Cars, have YOU not seen
a church-tower on hull. Our tower i,
beacon for miles around.
All Yes. of course have and tia,
Is Hrangely-super-Montem. /, ,our
name So hard to speak =
'Oh, no. II j. Lucv.'
'Luey ali, that is not hard, but ,of
soft a your fai dncks. Lie, -uha, :.
'Mctcalfe'
oh. the harsh English, ! will no.
Try 10 say It even. will stop a, Lucy.
And should | see you If | came to
Grangcly-supcr-Montcm:
Perhaps YOU would 1t depends
"hrIc hou went 10.
Il would 90 10 the hi.h tower 10
breathe a deep draugAt Of the fresh mr.
that makes You 50 rosy Nav come
and look for yon | want 10 know loW
10 make sausagcs like these: they ar.
50 good
But You haven't tasted them yrt.'
All, but know.
Cannot Your wife. Mrs. Van der
Roost-oh what a onI hArl name IT,
make sau,a-es: !: ASKED Lucy. misc-.lc,.
ffrrnap- ,nr ouu.u u uAu even
found her. hut have no vrau at homc.
Lacy.
suppose YOU were TO ,akr your dues
aud 20 nov. have 10 be busy. su--
scsied Llcy.
Wilhelm had no excuse ready. 80
after ten minutes more over the change
he slowly departed.
That evening the Duichnan .inphc.l
4 great many contcmplat!vc pipes.
The duck and sausages were 50 goo
that he thought he could not wait till
next market day for another. Next
morning. when he got Ia the Cars, he
looked up 10 the square tower OF
Graagely super -Montem till he could
resist no longer he must fctcn another
| duck.
In time he fetched a great many, and
left his heart behind instead, though
he did not find this out at once and i,
was longer still before he made the
discovery that he had carried off Lucy ;
IN Its place.
1t was December; the dullcst day
| of all the year were at hand. Wilhelm
wished the big drains were all dug and
| full of the slushy waters that he might
return 10 his beloved Holland with this
pretty English Lucy and her recipes
for fat ducks and sausage-meat. But
TO be fulfilled.
AS regards Lucy, great obstacle
had arisen. Her parents would not
hear of their daughter. the apple oi
their eyes, the light OF their Old age,
| going To a foreign land, a land-be-
cause 10 them unknown, full of all
sorts of horrors and drawbacks-witn
u strange man. whose lingo puzzled
them, and who might have dozen
wives for aught they knew. SO Mein-
herr Wilhelm Van der Roost was
hunted away with volley of north
country abuse, and such severe in-
functions were laid upon Lucy against
ever speaking TO this Dutchman again.
that the lovers were in despair.
| But Lucy was wise, she never gave
him up for moment; she meant to 20
to Holland with him, come what would,
yet she did not say SO. She kept at
home 50 quietly aud docilely. she APP
peared to have forgotten Wilhelm SO
easily, that her mothers fears were
allayed and though she would not let
Lucy 20 TO market any more, or even
out of the village, she grew quite kind
again.
Lucy's birthday was at hand. As
a reward for her good conduct, hel
mother gave her leave to ask all heI
friends to the tea-party. Lucy clapped
her hands with delight. How she would
have liked TO ask Wilhelm But that
would not do, her mother would have
been outrageous. So Lucy had to make
up her mind to do without him.
A few days before the party Lucy S
mother had a dream. Now Dame
Metcalfe was old-fashioned aud simple
in her notions, and possessed long
list of the meanings of dreams. This
time she dreamed that Wilhelm Van
der Roost came in one night as the
clock struck twelve, and offered her u
big meerschaum pipe, such as he used
to smoke. and that Lucy was dancing
round the room. She felt 30 angry
with Wilhelm that she dashed the pipe
from his hand; Is she did 10 her bes,
china tea-set, that was always kept in
a special cupboard, came down with q
clatter about her head, and lay in d
| mifiOn fraUments mixed IN with those