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UNDER THE GREENWOOD TREE.

so unconcerned at first, and then looked so frightened when the chair-bottom sunk in.'

'Ye see,' said old William, hastening to explain, 'I was alarmed to find the bottom gie way—what should I know o' spring bottoms?—and thought I had broke it down: and of course as to breaking down a man's chair, I didn't wish any such thing.'

'And, naibours, when a feller, ever so much up for a miff, d'see his own father sitting in his enemy's easy-chair, and a pore chap like Leaf made the best of, as if he almost had brains—why, it knocks all the wind out of his sails at once: it did out of mine.'

'If that young figure of fun—Fance Day, I mean,' said Bowman, 'hadn't been so mighty forward wi' showing herself off to Shinar and Dick and the rest, 'tis my belief we should never ha' left the gallery.'

''Tis my belief that though Shinar fired

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