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UNDER THE GREENWOOD TREE.

'Well, dear, I sha'n't be there Sunday to see it.'

'No, but such lots of people will be looking at me Sunday, you know, and it did set so badly round the neck.'

'I never noticed it, and probably nobody else would.'

'They might.'

'Then why not wear the gray one on Sunday as well? 'Tis as pretty as the blue one.'

'I might make the gray one do, certainly. But it isn't so good; it didn't cost half so much as this one, and besides, it would be the same I wore Saturday.'

'Then wear the striped one, dear.'

'I might.'

'Or the dark one.'

'Yes, I might; but I want to wear a fresh one they haven't seen.'

'I see, I see,' said Dick, in a voice in