"Maidens are such wondrous things!" [Illustration: 253.jpg Maidens are such wondrous things] "Not a bit of it," said Annie, casting her bright eyes downwards: "love is as simple as milking, when people know how to do it.

But you must not let her alone too long; that is my advice to you.

What a simpleton you must have been not to tell me long ago.

I would have made Lorna wild about you, long before this time, Johnny.

But now you go into the parlour, dear, while I do your collop.