t off at once.  But you must lend

    me your lantern, as t is so dark t I am afraid I might

    fall into tch.

    quot;I am very sorry, ans it is my neern,

    and it  loss to me if anyto it.

    quot;ell, never mind, I  it, cried little hans, and

    ook do, and  cap, and tied

    a muffler round , and started off.

    quot; a dreadful storm it   little

    rong t he could

    scarcely stand.  er he had

    been  t tors house,

    and knocked at the door.

    quot;or, putting  of his

    bedroom window.

    quot;Little or.

    quot; do you , little hans?

    quot;t himself,

    and ts you to come at once.

    quot;All rigor; and he ordered his horse, and his

    big boots, and ern, and came doairs, and rode off in

    tion of ttle rudging behind

    him.

    quot;But torm greorrents,

    and little  see wh

    t last  he moor,

    w was full of deep holes, and

    ttle

    day by some goating in a great pool of er, and was

    brougo ttage.

    quot;Everybody  to little hans funeral, as he was so popular, and

    the chief mourner.

    quot;As I  is only fair t

    I s place; so  the

    procession in a long black cloak, and every nohen he wiped

    -handkerchief.

    quot;Little ainly a great loss to every one, said the

    Blacksmited

    comfortably in ting s

    cakes.

    quot;A great loss to me at any rate, anshe Miller; why, I had

    as good as