passing hard to say, though peradventure that will not tarry but better speed with usage.

And then they rode to the damsels, and either saluted other, and the eldest had a garland of gold about her head, and she was threescore winter of age or more — ”

“The damsel was?”

“Even so, dear lord — and her hair was white under the garland — ”

“Celluloid teeth, nine dollars a set, as like as not — the loose-fit kind, that go up and down like a portcullis when you eat, and fall out when you laugh.”

“The second damsel was of thirty winter of age, with a circlet of gold about her head. The third damsel was but fifteen year of age —