candle when they're putting the extinguisher on it.'

'Did you? How d'ye know what the candle feels?'

'Oh, I don't know, but I did.' And again, after a pause, she said,--
'Oh, I am so glad to be here! It is so pleasant riding here in the open
free, fresh air, crushing out such a good smell from the dewy grass.
Papa! are you there? I can't see you.'

He rode close up alongside of her: he was not sure but what she might
be afraid of riding in the dark shadows, so he laid his hand upon hers.

'Oh! I am so glad to feel you,' squeezing his hand hard. 'Papa, I
should like to get a chain like Ponto's,' just as long as your longest
round, and then I could fasten us two to each end of it, and when I
wanted you I could pull, and if you did not want to come, you could
pull back again; but I should know you knew I wanted you, and we could
never lose each other.'

'I'm rather lost in that plan of yours; the details, as you state them,
are a little puzzling; but if I make them out rightly, I am to go about
the country, like the donkeys on the common, with a clog fastened to my
hind leg.'

'I don't mind your calling me a clog, if only we were fastened
together.'

'But I do mind your calling me a donkey,' he replied.

'I never did. At least I did not mean to. But it is such a comfort to