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UNDER THE GREENWOOD TREE.

ther it was worth while to tell her troubles to Elizabeth, and ask her advice in getting out of them, the witch spoke.

'You are down—proper down,' she said suddenly, dropping another potato into the bucket.

Fancy took no notice.

'About your young man.'

Fancy reddened. Elizabeth seemed to be watching her thoughts. Really, one would almost think she must have the powers people ascribed to her.

'Father not in the humour for't, hey?' Another potato was finished and flung in. 'Ah, I know about it. Little birds tell me things that people don't dream of my knowing.'

Fancy was desperate about Dick, and here was a chance—O, such a wicked chance!—of getting help; but what was goodness beside love!

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