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ANDREY SATCHEL AND THE PARSON AND CLERK
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“They were very glad of the offer, and went out of the church-yard by one path while the pa’son and clerk went out by the other, and so did not attract notice, it being still early. They entered the rectory as if they'd just come back from their trip to Port Bredy ; and then they knocked in the victuals and drink till they could hold no more.

“It was a long while before the story of what they had gone through was known, but it waa talked of in time, and they themselves laugh over it now; though what Jane got for her paina was no great bargain after all. “Tis true she saved her name.”

“Was that the same Andrey who went to the aquire’s house as one of the Christmas fiddlers?” saked the seedsman.

“No, no,” replied Mr, Profitt, the school-master. “It was his father did that, Ayo, it was all owing to his being such a man for eating and drinking.” Finding that he had the ear of the audience, the school-master continued without delay :

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