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HONEY-TAKING, AND AFTERWARDS.
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frey to depart, which he did with his usual long paces.

He could hardly have gone round to the cottage-door when other footsteps were heard approaching the outhouse; the tip of a finger appeared in the hole through which the wood latch was lifted, and Dick Dewy came in, having been all this time walking up and down the wood, vainly waiting for Shinar's departure.

Fancy looked up and welcomed him rather confusedly. Shinar grasped the candlestick more firmly, and, lest doing this in silence should not imply to Dick with sufficient force that he was quite at home and cool, he sang invincibly,

'"King Arthur he had three sons."'

'Father here?' said Dick.

'Indoors, I think,' said Fancy, looking pleasantly at him.

Dick surveyed the scene, and did not

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