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"Ay, there's sinse and rason in that," replied Eody; "and if you'd take my advice you'd give up Peggy Gartland, too." "I'll see you when I come back, Eody; don't be from about the place." And as he spoke, a single spring brought him over the stile at which they held the foregoing conversation. On advancing, he found himself in one of his father's fields, under the shelter of an elder-hedge.
The cottage itself, however, was pleasant enough to look upon, half thatched and half slated, with a narrow strip of flower-garden in front full of hollyhocks, sun-flowers, and wall-flowers, enclosed in a high elder-hedge. Besides which, the occupier had a prescriptive right, by custom, to a patch of potato ground in the allotments about a mile up the road.
And they trotted round the kitchen holding their treasures high above their heads and screaming with delight. Behind the elder-hedge they heard father's voice humming: When the sorrel shows, 'Tis then the month of May, O!... They ran to him, took the tools out of his hands and: "Father, the rabbits! The rabbits now, father?" "Will it be fine weather to-morrow?" asked Horieneke.
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