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'I had quite forgotten the old choir, with their fiddles and bass-viols, said the home-comer, musingly. 'Are they still going on the same as of old? 'Bless the man! said Christopher Twink, the master-thatcher; 'why, they've been done away with these twenty year.
'Yes. The master-thatcher attentively regarded past times as if they lay about a mile off, and went on: 'It happened on Sunday after Christmas the last Sunday ever they played in Longpuddle church gallery, as it turned out, though they didn't know it then.
Lackland joined, adding that the Satchel family was one he had known well before leaving home. 'I'll just mention, as you be a stranger, whispered the carrier to Lackland, 'that Christopher's stories will bear pruning. The emigrant nodded. 'Well, I can soon tell it, said the master-thatcher, schooling himself to a tone of actuality.
Lackland, I suppose, what a rum start that was between Andrey Satchel and Jane Vallens and the pa'son and clerk o' Scrimpton? said the master-thatcher, a man with a spark of subdued liveliness in his eye, who had hitherto kept his attention mainly upon small objects a long way ahead, as he sat in front of the van with his feet outside.
Profitt, the schoolmaster, in a soft felt hat, and Christopher Twink, the master-thatcher; and as the hour strikes there rapidly drop in the parish clerk and his wife, the seedsman and his aged father, the registrar; also Mr.