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No. I. Sojourn I3st The Farm-House By Th...
- 2 1 nd st Boy . — — " " Does Nomotlier your _fatlier ives g me ive you some mueli sometimes money . ?" But fatlier
will always Boy . give me , sixpence g if I'll work for him Saturdays . And What do you tMnk father said ? Why , he said he'd give me a penny
a "week if I'd leave off smoking ! " off . 1 st smoking Boy . — " ! M Ha y eye ! ha , what ! ha ! a j You oke ! don A 't penny mean to a week say he to did xeaye ?"
that 2 nd is Boy four . — and " Yes fourpence , he did a ! year a penny to leave a week off to smoking leave off ! smoking Only think , — father must be
of that ! A PENNY A WEEK ! What a ninny my to think I'd leave off smoking for a penny a week !" dell in
1 st Boy { shrieking with laughter till the rings aga ) . — "A p father enny think a week to are leave going off smoking to make ! That your is fortun a joke e at ! Does that rate your ?
you But 2 nd is Boy a penny . — ¦ c Yes a week , it is four ; but and you fourpence know I wouldn a year 't ? leave " off smoking t
for four and fourpence a year . But I ' m going home now—won' a you good 1 st come Boy joke ? . " — ! " " No { Co — n p tinues enny a _shoxiting week to these leav _tv e ords off smoking with wild ! shrieks That of is
laug Two hter till his ladie companion s shortly is after out of approach hearing ,, ) through the glen . They young
are both attired precisely alike , and draw near hand in hand , singing , " F Throug ollow h and the find wood me , ! throu " gh tlie wood ,
perceiving They reach a fallen the sli tre ppery e , seat their stepp themselves ing hair -stone which s , upon abrup falls it tl in ; y take long pause off ring , their and lets ,:
brown their straw shoulders hats , smooth out their shawls which they have brought with upon themseat themselve , open s and begin—one to " crochet , " the
other to read , aloud . The romantic-looking damsels continue their occupations for half an hour woodland or so , solitude and I begin to and fancy by they them not
a unworth which pretty they y little denizens seem basket to of enj , and the take with out a sensible sandwiches reli . sh and B but y hard they -boiled fling eggs their open ,
been egg-shells wrapped about , in , a and reckless oy the paper and ug in ly manner which their ; , they And sandwiches have is it thus com have
menced their desecration of Nature's beauty . possible that they ? and have is it caug possible ht si that ght of romantic my canvas as they throug arethey h the are le also
afybold screen enough , clad in those airy , printed muslin dresses , , to attempt , ite of thorns and bramblesto clamber up to my elevated retreat ?
sp ALas ! alas ! only too true , is their approach ! Soon with " hair _ loosely flowing , robes as free , " they emerge upon my narrow ledge
of rock . - ¦ I exclaim "Be so hastil good as as not the to first tramp adventurou le on that s root damsel of hartstongue is about to set ! "
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1862, page 18, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031862/page/18/
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