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The Village Well. 



In the evening, too, it is funny to notice how the 

 young women home from work will be moved to help 

 mother by bringing water for her. Fanny Wilkins 

 will be seen tripping along with her pail, singing to 

 herself, as her left hand goes over her plenteous fair 

 hair, coiled up in a big cushion at the back of her 

 head, to make sure that it is all trim and tidy, and 



looking as though she had no idea anybody else was 

 likely to be about there just then. Before she has 

 reached the well, Johnny Amos steals forth from some 

 hidling corner and joins her with " How be you, 

 Fanny ? " at which she pretends great surprise to 

 see him of all possible people ; and then they walk 

 on to the well, where Fanny takes long to get her 

 water up somehow, and finds it so hard and is so 



