Watch always
remains with me, and is an excellent dog, and very intelligent."
"You have indeed a fine flock, Humphrey!" said Edward.
"Yes, and they are improved in appearance already since they have been
here. Alice has got her geese and ducks, and I have made a place large
enough for them to wash in, until I have time to dig them out a pond."
"I thought we had gathered more hay than you required; but with this
addition, I think you will find none to spare before the spring."
"So far from it, that I have been mowing down a great deal more,
Edward, and it is almost ready to carry away. Poor Billy has had hard
work of it, I assure you, since he came back, with one thing and
another."
"Poor fellow! but it won't last long, Humphrey," said Edward, smiling;
"the other horses will soon take his place."
"I trust they will," said Humphrey, "at all events by next spring;
before that I do not expect that they will."
"By-the-by, Humphrey, you recollect what I said to you that the robber
I shot told me just before he died."
"Yes, I do recollect it now," replied Humphrey; "but I had quite
forgotten all about it till you mentioned it now, although I wrote it
down that we might not forget it."
"Well, I have been thinking all about it, Humphrey.
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