ound Where There Is Sai
ld to go home alone on this part of Egdon Heath. The distance to the boy's house was not more than three-eighths of a mile, his father's cottage, and one other a few yards further on, forming part of the small haml
e a little song about a sailor-boy and a fair one, and bright gold in store. In the middle of this the child stopped-
y, for they whistled gloomily, and had a ghastly habit after dark of putting on the shapes of jumping madmen, sprawling giants, and hideous cripples. Lights were not uncommon this evening, but the nature of
it, instead of Eustacia's solitary form, he saw two persons, the second being a man. The boy crept along under the bank to ascertain fr
egan to withdraw as silently as he had come. That he did not, upon the whole, think it advisable to interrupt
om discovery, he finally decided to face the pit phenomenon as the lesser evil. Wi
thing to alarm him till, coming within a few yards of the sandpit, he heard a slight noise in front, which led hi
he said aloud. "I have never k
atures did not run off, and that each wore a clog, to prevent his going astray; this signified that they had been broken in. He could now see the interior of the pit, which, being in the side of the hill, had a level entrance. In the
than pains. Only a few inches of mud wall kept him and his family from being gipsies themselves. He skirted the gravel pit at a respectful di
els--the man who had been Thomasin's friend. He was darning a stocking, which was red like the
and came out from the van. In sticking up the candle he lifted the lantern to his face, and the light shone into the whites of his eyes and upon his ivory teeth, which, in contrast with the red surrounding, lent him a st
as only a gipsy
s motion. The heather and peat stratum overhung the brow of the pit in mats, hiding the actual verge. The boy had stepped be
ern and turned it upon the
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man went to the van, the boy b
wing materials, tore off a strip, which, like everything
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gash, and the boy said, "I t
fraid of me. Do y
figure up and down with much mi
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leman!" h
tle children think there's only one cuckoo, one fox, one gian
your bags, will ye, master? 'Tis sa
u see all these bags at the back of my cart? They a
born a re
I should be white in time--perhaps six months; not at first, because 'tis grow'd into
he seed a red ghost here t'ot
ere t'ot
that dusty ligh
bonfire up there? I saw the light. Why did Miss Vye want a b
bide and keep up the fire just the same, whi
long did
rog jumped in
ly. "A hopfrog?" he inquired. "Hopfrogs
for I he
ain-s
n; and so I did. They say she's clever and
what
went back; but I didn't like to speak to her, be
What did she say
d the other woman because he liked his o
entleman say to
, and how he was coming to see her
inst the side of his van so that the whole fabri
jumped clean
e. "I forgot you were here. That's only a curious way reddlemen have of going
Master Reddleman, may
may. I'll go a bit
mother's cottage. When the little figure had vanished in the darkness the re