PERSEVERE AND PROSPER.

all the ladies as comfortably as they could,
and had caused some of the labourers to
bring the requisite number of bins to that
corner of the garden, the two boys would go
back again with their dog-cart, after adorn-
ing it with fresh hop-corealties, and bring
Fanny and Martha in it, who rode along
in state, carrying the books, and drawing,
and needle-work, entrusted to them by the
elder folks.

By the time they reached the scene of
operations, the Rectory party would gene-
rally arrive; Laura and Alice Merle wore
large coarse straw hats on this occasion,
which Frank and Henry Danvers would
wreath with hops, preparatory to the day’s
work. Mr. and Mrs. D’Eyncourt, and Mr.
James Danvers, (who was writing a poem
about the working classes), would saunter
away to all parts of the garden, greeting
the busy hoppers, who had been at work
there ever since four o'clock.

Some of these were the Fairdown village

folks; but most of them were very poor
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