66 THE SILVER LAKE STORIES.

don’t you remember nothing about
when they took you off?” |

“No, nothing, only one morning |
woke up, and I was in the gipsy camp,
and the dark faces of the gipsys were
all around me.”

“Carried you off whén you was
asleep, likely,” said Maggy. « Are they
kind to you?”

“No, nobody but Granny Greer.”

“ Well, they ain't very kind to me
here, nobody but Diana and Matthew,”
said Maggy.

A call from the house now summoned
Maggy, who hastened to obey it, but
not till she had told the poor boy to