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CHAPTER V.

Returning Homeward.

''A took it very well, then?' said Mail, as they all walked up the hill.

'He behaved like a man, 'a did so,' said the tranter. 'Supposing this tree here was Pa'son Mayble as might be, and here be I standing, and that large stone is father sitting in the easy-chair. "Dewy," says he, "I don't wish to change the church music in a forcible way."'

'Now, that was very nice o' the man.'

'Proper nice—out and out nice. The fact is,' said Reuben confidentially, ''tis

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