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UNDER THE GREENWOOD TREE.

'Ay, that they did, my sonnies!—especially the first time. There was a terrible whispering piece of work in the congregation, wasn't there, naibour Penny?' said the tranter, taking up the thread of conversation on his own account, and, in order to be heard in the room above, speaking very loudly to Mr. Penny, who sat at the distance of two feet from him, or rather less.

'I never remember seeing such a whispering as there was,' said Mr. Penny, also loudly, to the room above. 'And such sorrowful envy on the maidens' faces; really, I never see such envy as there was!'

Fancy's lineaments varied in innumerable little flushes, and her heart palpitated innumerable little tremors of pleasure. 'But perhaps,' she said, with assumed indifference, 'it was only because no religion was going on just then.'

'O, no; nothing to do with that. 'Twas

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