CHAPTER XV.
THE PEDLAR AND THE NECKLACE.
Verty mounted Cloud again, and set forward toward Apple Orchard.

That place very soon rose upon his sight, and riding up to the house Verty encountered the good-humored Squire, who was just coming in from the fields.
"Good morning, Squire," said the boy, smiling, "may I go and see Redbud, if you please ?" The Squire laughed.
"Redbud?
What, at school, yonder ?" "Yes, sir." The good-natured old gentleman looked at the boy's frank face, and admired its honest, ingenuous expression.
"I don't see why you should'nt, Verty," he replied, "if you don't go too often, and keep my little 'Bud from her lessons." "Oh! no, sir." "Go, go by all means--it will be of service to her to see home faces, and you are something like home to her.

Short as the distance is, I can't leave my farm, and we can't have 'Bud with us every week, as I should wish." "I've just come from there," said Verty, "and Redbud is very well, and seems to like the place.

There is a man who comes there to see Miss Sallianna, and Redbud most dies laughing at him--I mean, I suppose she does.

His name is Mr.Jinks." "What! the great Jinks?
the soldier, the fop, the coxcomb and swaggerer!" laughed the Squire.
Verty nodded.
"That's the very man, sir," he said, "and I saw him to-day.