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78 Chit-Chat by Puck.
didn’t take place till after dinner, when the little miss
tripped down to the shore to make the tea. John, one
of the journeyman smiths, gathered fuel for the fire,
and.at this our Miss Sarah was so pleased that she
nodded and smiled to the handsome fellow till he
blushed all over. And when the young couple were
on their knees, acting as bellows to the fire, their lips
chanced to come so near one another that they met in
a kiss. I almost ¢hznk it was the first one, but certain
it is that it was the last one, for the master-smith
‘himself came raging like a storm, and nearly
frightened the young people into the water; he was
terrible to behold.
“« My lass hasn’t been forged for such a stray waif
as thee, bellowed the master-smith, and his fist was
on the point of acting as a sledge hammer on poor
Jchn’s back, when in between them stepped young
Miss Sarah.
“T don’t mind telling you that I thought the master
himself lacked both heart and feeling, so, out of sheer
spite, I knocked myself down, and emptied all the tea
on to the gravel. All enjoyment for the day was put
an end to, and I can, with confidence, assert that there
was also an end to all enjoyment for the rest of the
whole life of poor Miss Sarah, for she loved with
her whole soul the poor journeyman, who was now
turned away from work by the pitiless master; and
she herself has become an old maid, for when het
father would not allow her to wed the man of her
own choice, nothing could prevail to make her
accept anybody else.
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