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UNDER THE GREENWOOD TREE.

how you take a man. Everybody must be managed. Queens must be managed: kings must be managed; for men want managing almost as much as women, and that's saying a good deal.'

''Tis truly!' murmured the husbands.

'Pa'son Mayble and I were as good friends all through it as if we'd been sworn brothers. Ay, the man's well enough; 'tis what's in his head that spoils him.'

'There's really no believing half you hear about people nowadays.'

'Bless ye, my sonnies! 'tisn't the pa'son's move at all. That gentleman over there' (the tranter nodded in the direction of Shinar's farm) 'is at the root of the mischief.'

'What! Shinar?'

'Ay; and I see what the pa'son don't see. Why, Shinar is for putting forward that young woman that only last night I

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