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UNDER THE GREENWOOD TREE.

'Mrs. Day, Fancy has stung her lip, and wants you to give me the hartshorn, please,' said Mr. Shinar, very close to Mrs. Day's face.

'O, Mrs. Day, Fancy has asked me to bring out the hartshorn, please, because she has stung her lip!' said Dick, a little closer to Mrs. Day's face.

'Well, men alive! that's no reason why you should eat me, I suppose!' said Mrs. Day, drawing back.

She searched in the corner-cupboard, produced the bottle, and began to dust the cork, the rim, and every other part very carefully, Dick's hand and Shinar's hand waiting side by side.

'Which is head man?' said Mrs. Day. Now, don't come mumbudgeting so close again. 'Which is head man?'

Neither spoke; and the bottle was inclined towards Shinar. Shinar, as a high-

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