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CHAPTER III.

FANCY IN THE RAIN.

The next scene is a tempestuous afternoon in the following month, and Fancy Day is discovered walking from her father's home towards Mellstock.

A single vast gray cloud covered all the country, from which the small rain and mist had just begun to blow down in wavy sheets, alternately thick and thin. The trees of the old brown plantation writhed like miserable men as the air wended its way swiftly among them: the lowest portions of their trunks, that had

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