He has taken the steers to market, I suppose?
I didn't see them in the three acre.

Oh, and, Jason, I found someone fishing in the dale; you must get a notice board and put it up where the road runs near the river; the tourists' time is coming on, and though they don't often come this side of the lake, some of them may, and we can't afford to have the river poached.

And, Jason, look to Ruppert's off-hind shoe; I think it's loose; and--" She stopped with a short laugh.

"But that's enough for one time, isn't it?
Oh, Jason, if I were only a man, how much better it would be!" "Yes, miss," assented Jason, simply, with another touch of his forehead.
She sighed and laughed again, and gathering up her habit--she hadn't to raise it much--she went through an open door-way into a wild, but pretty garden, and so to the back of one of the most picturesque houses in this land of the picturesque.

It was built of grey stone which age had coloured with a tender and an appreciative hand; a rich growth of ivy and clematis clung lovingly over a greater portion of it so that the mullioned windows were framed by the dark leaves and the purple flower.