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But I say, a-twix you and me and the gate-post, don't you never believe nothing that Mirandy Means says. Her and marm has set theirselves like fools to git you. Hanner! Well, she's a mighty nice gal, but you're welcome to her. I never tuck no shine that air way. But I was out of school last Thursday and Friday a-shucking corn to take to mill a-Saturday.

Now the position which it selects does not, as a rule, embrace a very large area a few acres perhaps at the most. But there is always some one point which is singled out and resorted to with marked frequency a tree, a bush, a gate-post, a railing, anything in fact which can form a convenient perch, and eventually it becomes a central part of the bird's environment.

"The effect's rather good," I confessed, "but oh, Jack, it's out of all proportion! That gate really looks as big as the whole valley and the hills beyond. The top of the gate-post ought to be up in the sky." "It would look beastly ugly if it was," replied he complacently. "You've got a very good tint for those hills; but the foreground is mere scrambling. Oh, Jack, do finish it a little more!

I told him I'd be sitting in that little box which you possibly noticed, built on the gate-post against the tree. And he'll be so disappointed not to find me there, that maybe you won't mind my leaving you awhile when the sun is right over the woods."

"Well, if that's the case, you have only to scrape away a little mortar from the gate-post near the hinge, and I will give you, through that opening, a pair of pincers and a hammer, with which you may by night draw out the nails of the staple, and we can easily put that to rights again, so that no one will ever suspect that the lock was opened.

Drummond that little house." "That?" said the Captain; but there was no more time now for retreat or question. He sprang out, threw the reins two or three times over the gate-post; then executed the very difficult operation of taking Daisy out of the wagon.

"On the contrary, there was not a wet stitch on me." "Oliver," added my mother, "has not many things to do that are worth his doing, but what he finds he does well." "Such as catching jack," said I, staggering in with my heavy load. It was admired unstintingly, and was indeed worthy of all praise. "Supper is ready, mam," said Jane; "and Joe says he knowed it wor as big as a gate-post."

Jane smiled at the thought of how Garth would throw back his head and shout, if she told him of this conversation. Lady Ingleby's musical remarks always amused her friends. They passed the village church on the green, ivy-clad, picturesque, and, half a minute later, swerved in at the park gates. Myra saw Jane glance at the gate-post they had just shaved, and laughed.

Some called for bows to bring him down with a parting shot. But Hereward forbade them; and stood leaning against the gate-post, watching him trot on like a lean wolf over the lawn, till he was lost in the great elm-woods which fringed the southern fen. "Now, lads," said Hereward, "home with you all, and make your peace with your fathers. In this house you never drink ale again."

"Some years they bloom lighter than Mother's and other years still darker just another one of the mysteries," he answered as he leaned against the gate-post and looked down at her with a smile.