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now, as we all shall!—that as she was such a old aged person, and lived so far from the church, he didn't at all expect her to come any more to the service.'

'And 'a was very jinerous gentleman about choosing the psalms and hymns o' Sundays. "Confound ye," says he, "blare and scrape what ye like, but don't bother me!"'

'And he was a very honourable good man in not wanting any of us to come and hear him if we were all on-end for a jaunt or spree, or to bring the babies to be christened if they were inclined to squalling. There's virtue in a man's not putting a parish to spiritual trouble.'

'And there's this man never letting us have a bit of peace; but wanting us to be good and upright till 'tis carried to such a shameful pitch as I never see the like afore nor since!'

'Still, for my part,' said old William,

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