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Jacob went off to Lymington as he had proposed, and returned late at night with White Billy well loaded; he had a sack of oatmeal, some spades and hoes, a saw and chisels, and other tools; two scythes and two three-pronged forks; and when Edward came to meet him he put into his hand a gun with a very long barrel.
"It was her father's wish, as he was very often obliged to send her to Lymington to a friend's house, and he was afraid of her getting into trouble; but she has not told me her story as yet she says that she will to-night." "Well, then," replied Edward, "you must make up a bed for her in your room to-night. Take Pablo's bed, and he shall sleep with me.
On Saturday, Humphrey and Pablo went to Lymington, to bring home Edward's clothes, and Humphrey made Pablo acquainted with all that he wanted to know, in case it might be necessary to send Pablo there alone. Edward remained with his sisters, as he was to leave them on the Monday.
The next day, Edward and Humphrey set off for Lymington, with Billy in the cart. "Do you know, Edward," said Humphrey, "what I am going to try and purchase? I will tell you: as many kids as I can, or goats and kids, I don't care which." "Why, have you not stock enough already? You will this year have four cows in milk, and you have two cow calves bringing up."
The reference to Canute's House brings to mind the tradition, stoutly upheld by Hamptonians, that it was at "Canute's Point" at the mouth of the Itchen, and not at Bosham or Lymington, that the king gave his servile courtiers the historic rebuke chronicled by Camden.
After passing the branch railway, and about half a mile short of Lymington, is a fine circular prehistoric entrenchment called Buckland Rings.
Thou knowest how used to fatigue I am in hunting and hawking." "I know thy strength, else I should have feared to risk thee for so long a jaunt. And thou hast never been so far from home before." "No; I went with thee once to Lymington where I saw The Solent, and in the distance the Isle of Wight. But never have I been even across Southampton water." "True; I had forgot.
The only mishap under which they laboured was, old Jacob's confinement to the cottage, which, as the winter advanced, prevented him from going to Lymington; they could not therefore sell any venison, and Humphrey, by way of experiment, smoked some venison hams, which he hung up with the others.
"Here's a Romsey man for you!" cried a young bowman with a sprig of evergreen set in his helmet. "And a lad from Alresford!" shouted another. "And from Milton!" "And from Burley!" "And from Lymington!" "And a little one from Brockenhurst!" shouted a huge-limbed fellow who sprawled beneath a tree.
On the Wednesday I went down to the coach office, and booked two places for Lymington, from where we took the steamer. I had not a suspicion of trouble. The booking-clerk was an elderly man. He said "I've got the box seat, and the end place on the back bench." I said "Oh, can't I have two together?" He was a kindly-looking old fellow. He winked at me.
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