Wait just one minute, till I speak to Squire." She sprang from the carriage with one bound, and, holding up her dress with one hand, ran into the house like a lapwing.
"The good, kind, silly thing!" said Grace Carden.
Jael soon found Mr.Raby, and told him about the magpie, and begged him to come out and order them back.
But Mr.Raby smiled, and shook his head.

"That won't do.

Young ladies and gentlemen of the present day don't believe in omens." "But you do know better, sir.

I have heard father say you were going into Hillsborough with him one day, and a magpie flew across, and father persuaded you to turn back." "That is true; he was going in to buy some merino sheep, and I to deposit my rents in Carrington's bank.

Next day the bank broke.