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UNDER THE GREENWOOD TREE.

pressing his lips and pouting them out, as if he were about to whistle the softest melody known.

'O no!' said Fancy solemnly; and the modest Dick drew back a little.

'O Dick, Dick, kiss me, and let me go instantly! here's somebody coming!' she exclaimed.

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Half an hour afterwards Dick emerged from the inn, and if Fancy's lips had been real cherries, Dick's would have appeared deeply stained. The landlord was standing in the yard.

'Heu-heu! hay-hay, Master Dewy! Ho-ho!' he laughed, letting the laugh slip out gently and by degrees, that it might make little noise in its exit, and smiting Dick under the fifth rib at the same time. 'This will never do, upon my life, Master Dewy! calling for a tay for a passenger, and then

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