d he swears I gave it him," said she. She had a clap. I never had
her afterwards, and was told that lots of men had had her. Fred told me
soon afterwards, that he had, but that she had been quite steady since
her marriage, he believed. I didn't undeceive him.

When the farm-work was over Molly stood sometimes at the lane-gate.
Loitering about I saw a man named Giles there, who when he saw me
moved off. I laid hold of her once or twice, kissed and made the usual
approaches, at last got a hot fit of lust for her, and felt I would do
anything to get her once. After two women with well-haired cunts I did
nothing but picture to myself that she had a small cunt, and but little
hair on it, like nursemaid's,--and the idea excited me.

I have already described the barn, step-ladder, and loft; the chickens
sometimes flew up the ladder into the loft. I had seen Pender go up, and
whisk them down. Looking about one afternoon (hay-making was again going
on), no one seemed about, though Pender was in the dairy. I entered the
barn from the brickyard side, just as Molly was going up the ladder,
showing her legs innocently enough.

"What pretty legs," I cried. The girl scuffled up as hard as she could
to get out of sight, I after her. She was chasing some chickens, and
was as red as a turkey-cock in the face. I caught hold of her, prick
standing, heart beating, and kissed her. She resisted, I put my hand up
her clothes, and in the struggle we both rolled on to a heap of loose
hay; I had felt the flesh of her thighs. "Leave off," said she, "or I'll
call mother." Her mother was then ill in the farm-house.

"Don't be a fool," said I attempting it again. "Don't you do such
things sir,--I'll call mother,--it's wrong of you" "If you do," said
I brutally, "I'll tell your mother Giles fucked you in the field last
week."

Never shall I forget the look of the poor girl's face. "Oh!--oh!" said
she breathless, "you didn't,--it's a story, oh! now pray,--oh! it's a
shocking story,--I warn't in the field." "Don't.--oh! it hurts," said
I repeating other words which had been wandering through my brain ever
since I heard them. "I heard you and the man say that."

She began to cry, putting her head in her hands. "Let me do it, and
I won't tell,--no one will know, and you won't tell Giles, that's
certain." She ceased crying, and fixed her eyes on me wildly, I got my
hand up her clothes, her thighs were closed, she kept pushing me away,
"No,--no,--no."