out so! Just so soon as ever I get to a place it goes away, and I'm somewhere else!"-and the little boy

ved silently aside in their turn, and the path grew before him, as he walked along, like a green carpet slowly unrolling itself through the wood. It made him a little uneasy, at first, to find that

There was a sign on the shop, reading, "Robin Hood: Venison," and Robin himself, wearing a clean white apron over his suit of Lincoln green, stood in the door-way, holding

't it?" said Davy, lo

Hood, promptly. "It's the

replied Davy; "I meant tha

iumphantly. "It comes on a deer. I

ng up the argument. "I don't think

peevishly. "What's the good, I'd like to know, of

y rude in coming there at all, "I didn't know you were this sort of person a

He wasn't an archer. He was a crossbow man,-the crossest one that eve

N'T IT?' SAID DAVY, L

on't happen to want any stea

hank you," said Da

" inquired

k you," sai

erday?" inquired Robin

said Davy, begi

d itself through the wood, and, looking back over his shoulder, he saw the little shop swallowed up by the trees and bushes. Just as it disappeared from view he caught a gl

iously watch the thickets on either side of the path, and even went so far as to whistle softly to himself, by way of showing that he wasn't in the least afraid. He went on and on, hoping the forest would soon come to an end,

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ocking his way, and refusing to move aside. This distressed him very much, until it suddenly occurred to him that this must mean that he was to go into the shop; and, after a mome

arge iron pot. As Davy approached him he saw that the pot was full of watches, which the old man was stirring with a ladle. The old creature was very curiously dressed, in a suit of rusty green velvet, with little si

ES DO YOU WANT?'

EEVISH

the shop, when the old man looked

king-looking person, with wild, staring eyes, and with a skin as dar

eated the old m

"I don't think I'll take any

ngrily beating the watches with his la

me"-began Dav

an, as crossly as before. "Of course it does! Th

l listen,"

loor and hold up your e

or was concerned, and the old man pulled a paper out of one of h

ctacle! I'm another.

tacles, I suppo

an enormous pair of spectacles out of the other boot h

test though

rememb

on, as you

gs I don

mblest thou

an they

hings, as yo

ry sel

he old man, peeping proudl

is," said Davy, r

whole thing," said the old

mostest th

no one b

ed the paper into his boot aga

to complete the verse. The old man glanced suspiciousl

the sole

us Forty

y Thieves were all boil

continued, rocking himself back and forth and chuckling hoarsely. "Oh! we were a precious lot, we were! I'm Sham-Sham, you know. Then there was Anamanamona Mike,-he was an Irishman from Hullaboo,-and Barcelona Boner,-he was a Spanish chap, and boned everything he could l

" said Dav

arico were a couple of bad Society Islanders. Then there was Wee Wo,-he was a little Chinese chap, and we use

, "Don't tell me a watched pot never boils!" sprang to his feet, and, pulling a pair of pistols from his belt, began firing at the watches, which were

openings overhead; but as he could still hear Sham-Sham, who now seemed to be firing all

oached, he was perfectly astounded to see that it was Sham-Sham himself, dressed up in a neat cal

haste. Davy noticed that they were now in a sort of tunnel made of fine grass. The grass had a delightful fragrance, like new-mown hay, and was neatl

ELL ME A WATCHED POT NEVER BOIL

upright in an arm-chair, with

ge chandelier that hung from the branches of a tree, and Dav

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l cried out together, "Here's the doctor!" but before Davy could reply the Hole-keeper suddenly made his appearance, with his great book, and, hurriedly turning over the leaves, said, pointing to Davy, "He isn