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her. But just as the forlorn young woman set down her
stool and pail, a dreadfully ragged man jumped out from
behind the barn-door, and running to the young woman,
took her round the waist, and kissed her very heartily.
"Well,
I declare!" exclaimed
Mr. Jack ;
" if that
isn't
Bobby Shaftoe got
home from sea, and come
straight after Dowsabella.
"Well, I hope she'll cheer up
a bit now,
for a forlorner
creature than she's been, ever
since he sailed, you never
PRETTY BOBBY. saw. Why, she'd go round
the house all day long, with the tears running down her
face, singing:
'
Bobby Sliaftoe's gone to sea,
Silver buckles at his knee ;
He'll come home and marrv me :
Pretty Bobby Shaftoe.'
But then nobody thought
he ever would come home
and marry her, and she grew more and more forlorn
every day. The silver buckles seem to have gone,
though, and Bobby looks as if the world had treated
him pretty badly. Shouldn't wonder but that's the reason
he's remembered Dowsabella.
Well, well, come into the
house, won't you, Chimney-Elf."
But the Chimney-Elf politely declined, and Farmer