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Hi, Smiles! Approach, Smiles, and be introduced to Thespis.

His charge is three shillings.

At the price of three shillings behold, Smiles, the golden age returned! Comedy carted home through leafy ways shall trill her woodnotes--her native woodnotes wild--in Henley-in-Arden!" The wagon had been packed and had departed, Mrs.

Mortimer perched high on a pile of tent cloths, and Mr.Mortimer waving farewells from the tail-board.
The two children, left with instructions to keep near the boat and in hiding, had made a nest for themselves among the stalks of loosestrife, and sat watching the canal for sign of a moorhen or a water-rat.
The afternoon was bright and very still, with a dazzle on the water and a faint touch of autumn in the air--the afterglow of summer soon to pass into grey chills and gusts of rain.