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UNDER THE GREENWOOD TREE.

'You had till I cut 'em up for Jimmy,' said Mrs. Dewy.

'And we ought, by rights, to go round Galligar lane, by Quenton's,' said Mr. Penny, recovering scent of the matter in hand. 'Dairyman Quenton is a very respectable man, and so is Farmer Crocker, and we ought to show ourselves to them.'

'True,' said the tranter, 'we ought to go round Galligar-lane to do the thing well. We shall form a very striking object walking along: good-now, naibours?'

'That we shall: a proper pretty sight for the nation,' said Mrs. Penny.

'Hullo!' said the tranter, suddenly catching sight of a singular human figure standing in the doorway, and wearing a long smock-frock of pillow-case cut and of snowy whiteness. 'Why, Leaf! whatever dost thou do here?'

'I've come to know if so be I can come

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