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 vil out of me. But Stephen is cloe-fited. When I ak him for ix-pence, he bluters in the houe, wore than you do at times in the mountain. Then he cats my poverty in my teeth, and I mut needs hold my tongue. Had I but brought him a portion, I hould eaily know how to top his mouth.’

‘What is thy huband’s trade?’

‘He is a glaman: he earns his bread hardly enough. The poor lave is obliged to carry an heavy burden quite from Bohemia hither every year; if he breaks a glas by the way, truly wife and children mut pay for it; but love’s blows break no bones.’

‘And thou cant love the man, that plays the game of wedlock o foully with thee?’

‘Why not? Is he not the father of my children? they will make all good again, and reward us well to boot, when they once grow up.’

‘Poor conolation; I doubt children, for- ‘ooth,