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THE PRICE OF BLOOD

THE CAT OF CAT COPSE

A HAMPSHIRE TRADITION

DE FACTO AND DE JURE

SIGBERT’S GUERDON

THE BEGGAR’S LEGACY

A REVIEW OF NIECES

COME TO HER KINGDOM

MRS. BATSEYES

I. FATHER AND DAUGHTER

II. BROTHER AND SISTER

III. BRIDE-ELECT AND FATHER

IV. MOTHER AND DAUGHTER

V. TWO FRIENDS

VII. TWO OLD FRIENDS

VIII. AUNT AND NIECE

IX. THE TWO SISTERS

X. AUNT AND NEPHEW

XI. GRANDFATHER AND GRAND-DAUGHTER

XII

CHOPS

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NOTE.—The remains of the five Danish vessels still lie embedded in the mud of the Hamble River near Southampton, though parts have been carried off and used as wood for furniture in the farm-houses.  The neighbouring wood is known as Cat Copse, and a tradition has been handed down that a cat, and a boy in a red cap, escaped from the Danish ships, took refuge there.

Near this track—for path it could hardly be called—stood a slender lad waiting and watching, a little round cap covering his short-cut brown hair, a crimson tunic reaching to his knee, leggings and shoes of deerhide, and a sword at his side, fastened by a belt of the like skin, guarded and clasped with silver.  His features were delicate, though sunburnt, and his eyes were riveted on the distance, where the path had disappeared amid the luxuriant spires of ling.

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Bertram gave his name, and at its Norman sound there was a start of repulsion from the boy.  “French after all!” he exclaimed.

“Nay, David,” said the leader, “if I mind me rightly, the Lady Elftrud of Boyatt wedded a brave Norman of that name.  Art thou her son?  I see something of her face, and thou hast an English tongue.”

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