Then, when they were fined for playing together, they did every day.

They made a splendid dam over the brook, which was very low; but one night came a storm, father's meadows were flooded, they could not get the dam undone, and some sheep were drowned.

So they went to Grand, and begged him to tell father, and get them off.

They said it was a strange thing they were never to be together, and neither of them had got a penny left.

So Grand got them forgiven, and we went all over the meadows for two or three days in canoes and punts." And now these two desirable inmates were to be together for a week.