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UNDER THE GREENWOOD TREE.

'I do like a man to stick to men who be in the same line o' life—o' Sundays, any way—that I do so.'

''Tis like all the doings of folk who don't know what a day's work is, that's what I say.'

'My belief is the man's not to blame; 'tis she—she's the bitter weed.'

'No, not altogether. He's a poor gawk-hammer. Look at his sermon yesterday.'

'His sermon was well enough, a very excellent sermon enough, only he couldn't. put it into words and speak it. That's all was the matter wi' the sermon. He hadn't. been able to get it past his pen.'

'Well—ay, the sermon might be good enough; for, ye see, the sermon of Old Ecclesiastes himself lay in Old Ecclesiastes's ink-bottle afore he got it out.'

Mr. Penny, being in the act of drawing the last stitch tight, could afford time to look up and throw in a word at this point.

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