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they meet; but I shall be back again when 

 you come next time. Now remember, my dear, 

 to drink me come up here and drink me. 7 



" ' Shall you be here?' said Bevis; 'are you 

 quite sure you will be here?' 



" ' Yes/ said the Wind, ' I shall be quite 

 certain to be here; I promise you, love, I will 

 never go quite away. Promise me faithfully, 

 too, that you will come up and drink me, and 

 shout and race and be happy/ 



" ' I promise,' said Bevis, beginning to go 

 down the hill ; ' good-bye, jolly old Wind.' 



" ' Good-bye, dearest,' whispered the Wind, 

 as he went across out towards the valley. As 

 Bevis went down the hill, a blue harebell, who 

 had been singing farewell to summer all the 

 morning, called to him and asked him to 

 gather her and carry her home, as she would 

 rather go with him than stay now autumn 

 was near. 



" Bevis gathered the harebell, and ran with 

 the flower in his hand down the hill, and as he 

 ran the wild thyme kissed his feet and said, 

 4 Come again, Bevis, come again.' At the 

 bottom of the hill the waggon was loaded now; 



