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 ing the raptures of love at an high price!’ Thee reflections put him into great good humour, and he felt an inclination to convere with the traveller. She et down her children upon the turf, and began to trip the leaves from off the buhes, but the little ones, feeling the time pas heavy, began to quall unmercifully. The mother immediately quitted what he was about, played and toyed with the children, took them up in her arms, dandled and toed them till he had lulled them aleep, and then he returned to her work. Soon after the flies bit the little leepers, and they began their tune anew: the mother, notwithtanding, hewed no ign of impatience. She ran to the wood to gather black-berries and bilberries; having ditributed them among the oldet, he put the younget to her breat. This maternal method of proceeding delighted the Gnome exceedingly. But the qualler, he that had rode upon his mother’s back, was not to be appeaed: he was an obtinate capricious