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UNDER THE GREENWOOD TREE.

'Th'st take long enough time about it then, upon my body,' said the tranter, as they all turned towards the vicarage.

'I thought you hadn't done having snap in the belfry,' said Dick.

"Why, we've been traypsing and rambling about, looking everywhere like anything, and thinking you'd done fifty horrid things, and here have you been at nothing at all!"

'The insult lies in the nothingness of the deed,' murmured Mr. Spinks.

The vicarage garden was their next field of operation, and Mr. Maybold, the lately-arrived incumbent, duly received his share of the night's harmonies. It was hoped that by reason of his profession he would have been led to open the window, and an extra carol in quick time was added to draw him forth. But Mr. Maybold made no stir.

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