You'll write me a line to say when the shed is finished, won't you ?" "That I will, and I'll tell you how Bessy goes on." Bessy was the cow.

"I will be so very fond of her.

She'll come to me for apples already." Belton thought that he would go to her, wherever she might be, even if he were to get no apples.

"It's all cupboard love with them," he said.

"I'll tell you what I'll do;--when I come, I'll bring you a dog that will follow you without thinking of apples." Then the gig was heard on the gravel before the door, and Belton was forced to go.