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As she walked along, seemingly incommoded by the burden, a young

man met her, whose countenance expressed a deeper despondence.

Uttering a few sounds with an air of melancholy, he took the pail

from her head and bore it to the cottage himself. She followed,

and they disappeared. Presently I saw the young man again, with

some tools in his hand, cross the field behind the cottage; and

the girl was also busied, sometimes in the house and sometimes in

the yard.