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Chapter XII.

The Story of Merrymind—(continued).

“By this time the night again came on: he knew it by the clearing mist and the rising moon. The people began to hurry home in all directions. Silence came over house and field; and near the deserted cottage Merrymind met the old man.

“‘Good father,’ he said, ‘I pray you tell me what sport or pastime have the people of this valley?’

“‘Sport and pastime!’ cried the old man, in great wrath. ‘Where did you hear of the like?’ We work by day and sleep by night. There is no sport in Dame Dreary’s land!’ and, with a hearty scolding for his idleness and levity, he left Merrymind to sleep once more in the cottage.

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