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*' Hush, hush ! " says he, holding up his 

 finger warningly, to induce me to hold my 

 tongue. 



*' If a policeman met you with it he would 

 think you meant to steal it," says I. 



" Hush, hush," said he again. Then, step- 

 ping off the path on to a newly ploughed field, 

 he walked up the furrow and, turning over a 

 sod, stuck the lamb with his knife. He let the 

 blood flow under the sod, and, as soon as the 

 lamb was dead, he turned the sod back in its 

 place again, thus covering up the blood. Then 

 he rejoined me, carrying with him the dead 

 lamb. 



*' If I am asked anything about this," says I, 

 *' I shall tell the truth, and you must take the 

 consequences." 



At this point the dream unaccountably 

 changed. Although Humphries was still the 

 chief actor, the circumstances were different. 

 I never awoke during the whole time — or, if I 

 did, I was not conscious of it — but kept dream- 

 ing right on. 



I dreamt that Humphries came to me and 



