Under the Greenwood Tree
an increasing light made itself visible in one of the windows of the upper floor. It came so
er face, her right hand being extended to the side of the window. She was wrapped in a white robe of some kind, whilst down her shoulders fell a twining profusion of marvellously rich hair, in a wild disorder which proclaimed it to be only during the invisible hours of the night that su
d lightly and warmly -"Than
to its place. Her fair forehead and eyes vanished; her little mouth; her neck and shoulde
!" exclaime
k she couldn't ha' been co
tual vision as ever I wish
, never see!" sa
oats and adjusting their hats, agreed
d then replenish our inside
aid old William, shou
ch wider than they were high, and this feature, together with a broad bay-window where the door might have been expected, gave it by day the aspe
was reached, and the prel
hirty-two, 'Behold the Morn
bow-stroke previously to pouring forth the opening chord of the third verse, when
ng row here! A feller wi' a headache enou
nt the
id the tranter, in a keenly appreciativ
nds of harmony!" commanded old Will
d William firmly. "Give it him well; the
e window opened, and the farmer stood
cried, fiddling frantically. "Play
t Mr. Shiner had said, was saying, or was about to say; but wildly flinging his arms and body about in the
ired. "Never such a dreadful scene in the whole round
in his religious frame. He's in his worldly frame now. Must ask en to our bit of a party
proceeding further, and they entered the church and ascended to the gallery. The lanterns were opened, and the whole body sat round against the walls on benches and whatever else was available, and made a hearty meal. In the pauses of conversation there co
gain tuned the instruments, and once mo
ick?" said
if Dick might have been transmuted into one or
very nasty of Master Dicky,
nd upon't," another suggested, thou
r, and his voice rolled sono
lst listening for an answer, and finding he
o't without en, you see. But for a quire to lose the treble, why, my sonnies, you may so well
once," sugge
erile of people to complete sentences when
young man leaving his work half
that he was the last man in the world to wish
y has overtook the lad!
Why that fiddle cost thirty shillings, and good words besides. Somewhere in the damp,
n have happened?" said old William, m
better than let anything happen onawares," Reuben remarked. "There's sure to be some poor little scram reason for't staring us in the face a
uch a body. He's as
rry," cried Jimmy, "but live at ho
every lad has sai
cross to the schoolhouse. A light was still burning in the bedroom, and though the blind was down, the window had
h tree, was the lost man, his arms folded, his head th
hat thee? What b
turn east and west in the gloom, as if endeavouring to discern some proper answer
en, upon my body," said the tranter, as
done having snap in th
ing everywhere, and thinking you'd done fifty death
point of it being nothing a
ived his share of the night's harmonies. It was hoped that by reason of his profession he would have been led
id old William,
voice was heard exclaiming from inner de
r dull of hearing. Bowman's voice, being there
villagers!'" cri
r 'ee the first ti
l the young man's temper by answe
t, my friends!" t
isper. "Beats any horse or dog in the parish, and de
hat in time," s
abitant, was anxious to play all the tunes over again; but renounced his d
ouses; "that is, in the form of that young female vision we zeed just now, and this young tenor-voiced parson, my belief is she'll