i $6 WITH THE WOODLANDERS. 



I tell ye; it ken grow till it all falls inter the 

 bog." 



" No 'fence to ye, on'y they tells me they're givin' 

 a middlin' figger for hoops jest now." 



"Ah, well, I be thankful tu say as I ain't druv 

 for money; so that hedge will jest bide where 'tis 

 for my time." 



A fortnight later the cottagers who lived near 

 the mill were much disturbed by accounts of " a 

 most unairthly sight " that had been seen by old 

 Shadrac, the miller's man, who looked after the 

 cows and kept the house-garden in order. He had 

 been up with one of the cows that was ailing, he 

 said, and when he came out of the gate close to 

 the alder-copse of which we have spoken, " riggers 

 on hossback, with flaming soords in their hands, 

 had actooally cum near tu where he stood rooted 

 to the ground with fear like." Then they had van- 

 ished. " There waun't a sound to be 'eerd frum 

 un," he said. When he had summoned courage 

 to look up again there was nothing to be seen. 

 He added, too, that the sight had "fattened" him so, 

 that he had been in bed for nearly two days, shak- 

 ing with fear, and that his master had been over 



