448 KUEAL SIMPLICITY. [CHAP. xiv. 



C. Ah ! You 're a Norfolk man too, I find. 



B.-C. In coose, Sar. Sullingim's my native. Glad 

 you know my name and my trade, Sar. Sometimes 

 they take me for one o' them there poachin fellers, that 

 slink about arter Pheasant's eggs; but I niver go a 

 water-creasing, and then come home with a rare big 

 basketful, greens a' top, Sar, and ducks at the bottom. 

 Folks that don't know me, warn me off their primmises 

 now and then, and I 'm 'bliged to hide up in a deek for 

 a da' or so, to git a ba'd that I wull have. But here, ye 

 know, Sar, I Ve the Governor's leave, ever since the 

 Rural sarved me that there trick. I don't mean the 

 Dean, Sar, I mean the Police. He s gone now, but 

 they ha' got another. He used to live in one o' them 

 there housen, up o' the loke up yinder, next door to 

 m' aunt and m' uncle. They put me up to him. 



E.-A. Ah ! They 're a neat set. 



B.-C. Very nate indeed, Sar, with ther rosy faces 

 and ther bootiful whiskers. They shave twice a week 

 regular ; three times, if they want to git a poor feller's 

 secrets out o' the gal he keep company with. 



C. You seem to have a high opinion of them. 



B.-C. Yis, Sar, and well I ma'. One da', when I was 

 here all alone arter some Draw-waters, up come the 

 Rural, lookin very knowin. " I sa', bor," ses he, " I 

 want a hare very bad ; can't yow happen o' one?" " I 

 do n' know," ses T, " I '11 see what I can du. Per'aps 

 yow '11 be here agin to-morrer." So away he walk, as if 

 the lane was his property, instid o' the Governor's. The 

 Governor was 't 'ome, so I went and told 'im the good- 

 ookin Rural with the bootiful whiskers wanted a hare. 

 Law, Sar! how he did bl t and swear! He called 

 'era a set of Jinnizerries. " Coyham, bor," ses he, " I '11 



