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UNDER THE GREENWOOD TREE.

to a pomacc. The horseshoe cam full-butt on this point, you see. And so I've just been over to Geoffrey's, to know if he wanted his bunion altered or made bigger in the new pair I'm making.'

During the latter part of this speech, Mr. Penny's left hand wandered towards the cider-cup, as if the hand had no connection with the person speaking; and bringing his sentence to an abrupt close, all but the extreme margin of the bootmaker's face was eclipsed by the circular brim of the vessel.

'However, I was going to say,' continued Penny, putting down the cup, 'I ought to have called at the school'—here he went groping again in the depths of his pocket—'to leave this without fail, though I suppose the first thing to-morrow will do.'

He now drew forth and placed upon the table a book—small, light, and prettily

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