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So by the time the men came up to the hedge, Harry was sitting very unconcernedly with his legs swinging in the ditch, rubbing in the dock juice upon the stung places with all his might. "Here he bes," said a voice, and the great brown face of one of the carters peered over the hedge. "Art t'e hurt, Maester Harry?" "No: not I," said Harry, getting up, "Jump over and catch that old wretch.
"Maester!" she cried, "can Abel mind Jan a bit? I be going to clean the house." "Ay, ay," said the windmiller, "Abel can mind un. I be going to the village myself, but there's Gearge to start, if so be the wind rises. And then if he want Abel, thee must take the little un again." "Sartinly I will," said his wife; and Abel willingly received his charge and carried him off to play among the sacks.
"The old-fashioned little piece!" exclaimed the nurse, admiringly. And Mrs. Lake added, "Let un see the little lady, maester." The miller held out the baby, and the nurse, removing a dainty handkerchief edged with Valenciennes lace from its face, introduced it as "Miss Amabel Adeline Ammaby;" and Mrs. Lake murmured, "What a lovely little thing!"
"I wondered if the mon was a bit daft," said Sandy, "when he said tae Janie, 'Mind ye sing the lessons I gie ye, an naething else. "She's been singing the blithe Scotch ballads since she was a' most a bairnie, an' her voice has grown sweeter a' the time. I say again, I hope he's na daft." "Sandy, Sandy!" cried Margaret, "ye must na question the great music maester.
Nay bear a hand with this hamper, Maester Shaw, if you please if it's all t' same to you, Mr. Proprietor, I think we shall have to trouble you to step up to t' Town Hall by-and-by, and see if we can't get shut of them mistaking friends o' yours for three months any way." If that day was a trying one to Daddy Darwin the night that followed it was far worse.
"Wal, that may all be, Maester John; but I've heerd tell ther is some most awful things goes on out yonder," and he swung his long arm meaningly toward the west. "Animyles sich as don't prowl raound yere, man-yeatin' snakes as big as thet tree, an' the blood-thirstiest salvages as ever was.
"No, we won't, Sam, if you'll come and help us do our gardens up." "Oh, ah!" said Sam, "and I've got no end of things as wants doing: there's all the wall fruit wants nailing in, and the grapes wants thinning, and There now, just look at that! Master Harry, you mustn't. If you don't put it down directly, I'll go and fetch out the Maester."
But he was terrified, and none the less so from a conviction that she was looking intently and intentionally at him. When he got his foster-mother indoors, the miller was disposed to think the affair was a fancy; but, as if the shock had given a spur to her feeble senses, Mrs. Lake said in a loud clear voice, "Maester, it be the woman that brought our Jan hither!"
"What I would have, Timothy," answered Frank, "is for you to tell me who those two young ladies are that you are in attendance upon?" "Maester's two dafters," replied Timothy. "And who's maester?" asked Frank. "The squire, to be sure," answered his man. "And what's squire's name?" inquired Frank.
Lad! as sure as you're maester of Dovecot, you'll give it a missus. Now take heed to me. If ye fetch any woman home here but Phoebe Shaw, I'll walk, and scare ye away from t' old place. I'm willing for Phoebe, and I charge ye to tell the lass so hereafter. Aye, aye, she's not one of t' sort that quits a falling house like rattens."
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