A PAIR OF BLUE
EYES.
the singing of birds, the crowing of cocks,
and a hundred other sights and sounds
which people with watches in their pockets never
know
the existence
to pronounce within ten
hour almost
me
reminds is
too bad
at
they are able
minutes of the
any required
instant.
That
of an old story which I'm afraid
— too
vicar shook his
— do
bad
to repeat.'
Here the
head and laughed inwardly. said the ladies.
'
Tell
^
I mustn't quite tell
it
of,
!'
it.'
'Chat's absurd,' said Mrs. Swancourt. '
It
was only about a man who, by the
same careful system of observation, was
known
to
deceive persons for more than
two years into the barometer by foretell all
brapng
belief that
stealth,
so
he kept a
exactly did he
changes in the weather by the
of his ass and the
temper of
his
wife.'
Elfride laughed. 'Exactly,' said Mrs. Swancourt. in just the
way
'And
that those learnt the signs
