CHAPTER XIV.
"Pray you, sir, how much carnation ribbon, may a man buy for a remuneration ?"--_Comedy of Errors_.
The living-room at The Rigs was the stage of many plays.

Its uses ranged from the tent of a menagerie or the wigwam of an Indian brave to the Forest of Arden.
This December night it was a "wood near Athens," and to Mhor, if to no one else, it faithfully represented the original.

That true Elizabethan needed no aids to his imagination.

"This is a wood," said Mhor, and a wood it was.

"Is all our company here ?" and to him the wood was peopled by Quince and Snug, by Bottom the weaver, by Puck and Oberon.