thou’lt be warm the sooner.”

The King was back in dreamland before this speech was ended. Miles slipped softly out, and slipped as softly in again, in the course of thirty or forty minutes, with a complete second-hand suit of boy’s clothing, of cheap material, and showing signs of wear; but tidy, and suited to the season of the year. He seated himself, and began to overhaul his purchase, mumbling to himself —

“A longer purse would have got a better sort, but when one has not the long purse one must be content with what a short one may do —

“‘There was a woman in our town,

In our town did dwell — ’

“He stirred, methinks —