HAMPSHIRE DAYS 



long slender spray of traveller's joy round her brown 

 straw hat, and was now weaving in lychnis and veronica, 

 with other small red and blue blossoms, to improve her 

 garland. I found to my surprise on questioning her 

 that she knew the names of the flowers she had col- 

 lected. An English village child, but in that Spanish 

 darkness and beauty, and in her grace and her pretty 

 occupation, how very un-English she seemed ! 



