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An ÉVENING IN ¥h& S&UIR2& KItCHEN. 268 squire's wife, when the smith had finished this story, and gp€ jip from her comfortable seat. " Yes, I suppose wc must be going, since the old man has gone to roost," said the smith, and bade the children " Good night ; " but he had to promise them to tell more the next evening, håving made the condition that he was to have a " quarter of tobacco." Next afternoon, when I went into the sinithy, I found the smith chewing very hard, which was always the case when he had been drinking. In the evening he went to some of the neighbouring farms to get more drink. When I saw him again some days afterwards, he was gloomy and chary of words. He would not tell any stories, although the boys promised him both tobacco and brandy. * The girls whispered, that the fa : ries had got hold of him and knocked him over in the Asmyr hill. A carter had found him lying there early in the morning, and then he spoke incoherently.