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The house of the worthy publican was also adapted to the various occupations which he carried on, being a large scrambling assemblage of cottages attached to a house of two stories, roofed with flags of sandstone the original mansion, to which the extensions of Mr. Crackenthorp's trade had occasioned his making many additions.

Meantime the noise continued without, and we are to give an account of its origin in our next chapter. Joe Crackenthorp's public-house had never, since it first reared its chimneys on the banks of the Solway, been frequented by such a miscellaneous group of visitors as had that morning become its guests.

That is a road which you may travel as heretics; but as Scotsmen, I would only send you three-fourths of the way and that is back to Scotland again always craving your honour's pardon. 'Does our journey lie that way? said Fairford. 'As far as the waterside, said Richard. 'I am to carry you to old Father Crackenthorp's, and then you are within a spit and a stride of Scotland, as the saying is.

He assured his passenger that he would be quite well by and by, when he had been half an hour on terra firma, and that he hoped to drink a can and smoke a pipe with him at Father Crackenthorp's, for all that he felt a little out of the way for riding the wooden horse. 'Who is Father Crackenthorp? said Fairford, though scarcely able to articulate the question.

"Fayder," said Aaron, whose feet were busy beating out the tune, "how does that big cock's-feather stick in Mrs. Crackenthorp's yead? Is there a little hole for it, like in my shuttle-cock?" "Hush, lad, hush; that's the way the ladies dress theirselves, that is," said the father, adding, however, in an undertone to Mr.

Macey," said poor Tookey, serious amidst the general laughter, "I undertook to partially fill up the office of parish-clerk by Mr. Crackenthorp's desire, whenever your infirmities should make you unfitting; and it's one of the rights thereof to sing in the choir else why have you done the same yourself?" "Ah! but the old gentleman and you are two folks," said Ben Winthrop.