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here and there a blue vein, just showing she had good blood in her, 

 and such a pair of eyes ! Oh ! Will, I think I see them.' 



"Where where?" said Will, who was a staunch believer in 

 ghosts, and feared them like a true Christian. 



" No, no ; well I only meant to say, I remember them quite well, 

 as black as jet and sparkling like fire, it made me all on fire to look at 

 them. Directly I got into the room the old man said something to 

 his son in a surly tone, and the young man turning to me said, ' You 

 are now to begin your duty; you are to work in my sister's garden, 

 and do any thing she tells you ; and my father says, if you ever dis- 

 obey her he will kill you ; but I am sure/ said he, in a kind tone, 

 'you will do all you can, and I'll try to make you comfortable/ 

 Well, when I heard this, you may suppose I wasn't much afraid of 

 the old cove killing me, for one couldn't help being pleased at doing 

 any thing for such a pair of eyes as she had. But, howsomnever, I 

 found working in the garden was not the only thing I had to do ; for 

 the next day, at about noon, the brother came to me, and said, f You 

 must get my sister's mule ready, and lead it for her, and I shall walk 

 with you.' I forgot to tell you that the name of the young man 

 was Yarnio Pothalimo, and his sister's Zuthea Pothalimo. Well, 

 away I went with the same men who I dined with the day before, 

 to get the mule ready, and led it out ; and then Zuthea came out of 

 the house, and was lifted up by her brother, and I took the bridle and 

 walked, with Yarnio by her side, leading the mule on. We went through 

 a beautiful country, woods of olives and plantations of grapes, till at 

 last we came to a grove of sweet lemons ; there we saw about thirty 

 others, men, women, and children, with guitars, and things something 

 like our fiddle that they call a catharox. When we got alongside them 

 Zuthea was lifted down by her brother, and after kissing all the wo- 

 men and children, they walked a little further on to where there was 

 fountain a running down over some stones ; here, on a plot of grass, 

 was spread out fish, fruits, wine, and all that ; down they all sat, and 

 I stood behind Zuthea, but directly she saw me, she motioned to me 

 to sit down by her side, and her brother said, ' My sister says you are to 

 sit down and enjoy yourself.' When he said this, she looked in my 

 face with such a sweet smile on her pretty lips, that I could hardly 

 help kissing them; but, however, I didn't, and only looked at her again, 

 and said to her brother, ' You're sister is very kind to a poor prisoner, 

 and he is very much obliged to her/ When her brother translated 

 this to her, she blushed, smiled, and looked down, and seemed to be 

 very melancholy for a little while ; but she soon recovered, and told 

 me through her brother to fill her a cup of wine, which I did, and of- 

 fered it to her; she took it from me with a smile and just put it to 

 her lips said, ' May you be happy !' and then gave it me and told me 

 to drink it. I took it, and thanking her, I wished her happiness in 

 return, and drank it off. After we had all sat a little time, they got up 

 and began to dance, and a young Greek, not of our party, but one of 

 those we met, came up to Zuthea and asked her to dance, and led her 

 out; the brother did not dance, but stood by me looking on while 

 they were dancing ; he turned, looked at me and said, ' I wish you 

 were a Greek, you should then be my friend my brother, for I 



