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ALL IN A GARDEN FAIR. 253
In a beautiful map wliicli shows tlie progress
of the pilgrim of love, there occurs, quite early
in the pilgrimage, Lite des Petits Soins lying
quite close to tlie Tcrre d'Adniivation. It is
succeeded by a black and grisly district, horrid
with woods and dreadful mountains, as they
used to say before the taste for the picturesque
was awakened ; it is called the Pays des Jaloux,
Now, all these suitors were engaged among the
gloomy defiles and black fore^sts of this unpro-
mising country. Tommy was the first to enter
it, and the reason—as it seemed to him, not
knowing that it was part of the pilgrimage
was the fact that Claire continued the old custom
of walking with Allen iu the Forest, sometimes
in the evening, alone with liiin. She had done
this for many years, yet the enormity of the
thing never occurred to Tonnny until he began
to consider the young lady as, in the sweet City
parlance, his own property.
Tommy did not resolve upon j)ursuing this
afTair without great consideration. Before
finally deciding upon paying his addresses to