The Headswoman

THE GOLDEN AGE
DREAM DAYS
PAGAN PAPERS
THE BODLEY HEAD
By Kenneth Grahame
With Illustrations in Colour and Woodcuts by Marcia Lane Foster
LONDON John Lane The Bodley Head Limited New York John Lane Company
Printed In Great Britain by R. Clay & Sons, Ltd., Bungay, Suffolk.
There was a touch of scorn in her fine contralto voice as she finished speaking; the Mayor himself beamed approval. He was not wealthy, and had a large family of daughters; so Jeanne’s sentiments seemed to him entirely right and laudable.
“Beg pardon, your worship,” put in Master Robinet, the tanner, who had been sitting with a petrified, Bill-the-Lizard sort of expression during the speechifying: “but are we to understand as how this here young lady is going to be the public executioner of this here town?”
“Really, neighbour Robinet,” said the Mayor, somewhat pettishly, “you’ve got ears like the rest of us, I suppose; and you know the contents of the deed; and you’ve had my assurance that it’s—er—quite in order; and as it’s getting towards lunch-time——”
“But it’s unheard of,” protested honest Robinet. “There hasn’t ever been no such thing—leastways not as I’ve heard tell.”