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UNDER THE GREENWOOD TREE.

picious-looking cottage-windows opposite, by endeavouring to appear like a man in a great hurry of business, who wished to leave the handkerchief and have done with such trifling errands.

This endeavor signally failed; for on approaching the gate, he found it locked to keep the children, who were playing prisoner's base in the front, from running into her private grounds.

She did not see him; and he could only think of one thing to be done, which was to shout her name.

'Miss Day!'

The words were uttered with a jerk and a look, which were meant to imply to the cottages opposite that he was simply a young man who liked shouting, as being a pleasant way of passing his time, without any reference at all to persons in gardens. The name died away, and the unconscious Miss

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