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Updated: May 9, 2025
"Not the skimmity-ride?" Buzzford nodded. "I have my doubts if it will be carried out," said Longways. "If they are getting it up they are keeping it mighty close. "I heard they were thinking of it a fortnight ago, at all events." "If I were sure o't I'd lay information," said Longways emphatically. "'Tis too rough a joke, and apt to wake riots in towns.
"So much the better for her," said the aged furmity-woman. "Ah, I saved her from a real bad marriage, and she's never been the one to thank me." "I say, what a good foundation for a skimmity-ride," said Nance. "True," said Mrs. Cuxsom, reflecting. "'Tis as good a ground for a skimmity-ride as ever I knowed; and it ought not to be wasted.
This was barred, and while the landlady was unfastening it the conversation about the skimmington was continued in the sitting-room, and reached his ears. "What do they mean by a 'skimmity-ride'?" he asked. "O, sir!" said the landlady, swinging her long earrings with deprecating modesty; "'tis a' old foolish thing they do in these parts when a man's wife is well, not too particularly his own.
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