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In Killingly "the overplush of provisions" was sold to help pay the arrearages of the salary of the outgoing minister, thus showing a laudable desire to "settle up and start square." If the church were dedicated at the time of the ordination, that would naturally be cause for additional gayety.
When the scales turned the hundred-weight, I said, 'Now put in two great lumps for overplush and sack it up. So he did, an' Bill took the bag out to the cart.
'Now for the next, says I. Philp's a greedy fellow: he stuck there lookin' so hard at the weighin'-scoop, wonderin' how much overplush he'd get this go, he didn' see me twitch the tailmost sack out o' the line wi' th' end o' my crutch, nor Bill pick it up casual as he came along an' toss it away into the corner.
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