i84 FIELD AND HELCGEROW. 
Country people are very peculiar in this respect, and da 
not like to remind their friends of obligations. Two 
years went by, and still no return, though the parties 
were in constant intercourse. I have known people 
borrow a hundred pounds in the country, and debtor and 
creditor mect several times a week for years, and nothing 
said about it on either side. No strained relations were 
caused—it seemed quite forgotten till executors came, 
Three ycars went by, still no dogcart, though it was 
scen daily on the roads in use. I was driving with a 
man once when we met a woman walking, and as we 
passed she put up her umbrella so as not to be able to 
see us. ‘That’s So-and-so, said he; ‘they borrowed. 
some money from me a long time ago; they have never 
said anything about it. Whenever she meets me she 
always puts up her umbrella so as not to sce me.’ Four 
ycars went by, and still no dogceart. By this time it was 
looking shabby and getting shaken by rough usage; 
perhaps they did not like to return it in such a condi- 
tion. Five years went by, and after that they seem to 
have lost all count of the dogcart, which faded away ike 
a phantom. One farmer had been telling another some- 
thing which his companion seemed to consider doubtful, 
and disputed; however, he finished up by saying, 
‘That’s no lie, I can assure you. ‘Well, no; but I 
should certainly have taken it as such.’ One fellow 
happening by chance in the hunting-field to come across 
the Prince of Wales, took off his hat with dot hands to 
express his deep humility. Here is a cottage nursery 
rhyme, genuinely silly :— 
Right round my garden 
There I found a farden, 
Gave it to my mother 
To buy a little brother, 
