"Aha!" exclaimed Jack, with a roguish wink, "I've caught you,—have I?" The carpenter's daughter was fair and free— Fair, and fickle, and false, was she! She slighted the journeyman, (meaning me!) And smiled on a gallant of high degree. "In wine there is truth. "Mur—der!" roared Wood, struggling to free himself from his assailant, by whom he was half strangled. She had gone into Morgan's one afternoon for a bag of salt. One keeps rules in order to be one’s self. " "I shouldn't mind ridding him of her," said Blueskin, gruffly; "and if she comes in my way, may the devil seize me if I don't make short work with her!" "You forget," rejoined Jack, sternly, "I've just said I'll have no violence—mind that. “I’ll be hanged if I do. " "And loving me, you fought me, avoided all my traps! I'm glad I've been so unhappy. "All right," replied Sheppard, with affected indifference. It was a young girl who overheard me when I was on my third shopkeeper who answered my question.