Wessex Tales

asyet but early April, the feed lay entirely in water-meadows, and thecows were 'in full pail.' The hour was about six in the eveni

to-morrow, I hear. They've c

called Cherry,but the speaker was a milking-woman, who

dy seen her?'

y enough,' she added;and as the milkmaid spoke she turned her face so that she couldglance past her cow's ta

ntinued the second, with also aglance o

do you call

irty

,' and with the brim of his hat tied down, sothat he looked like a woman. ''A was born

to us about FarmerLodge's age, or Farmer Lodge's new mis'ess? I shall have to pay himnine pound a year for the rent of every one of these milchers,whatever his age or hers. Ge

ut thefirst woman murmured under her cow to her next neighbour,

nd. 'He ha'n't spoke to

ee, setupright in the earth, and resembling a colossal antlered horn. Themajority then dispersed in various directions homew

ove the water-meads, and not far from the border of EgdonHeath, whose dar

g wife home from Anglebury to-morrow,' the woman observed. 'Ishall want to

aid the boy. 'Is f

a look, and tell me what's s

s, mo

woman who has ever worked for a living, or one that hasbeen always well off, and

'Y

f which had been washed by manyrains into channels and depressions that left none of the originalflat face

ill the turves flamed. The radiance lit herpale cheek, and made her dark eyes, that had once been handsome,seem handsome anew. 'Yes,' she resumed, 'see if sh

his mother notobserving that he was cutting a not