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Updated: June 12, 2025
"Some day when that theer old stapil be all rusted away, an' these old bones is a-restin' in the churchyard over to Cranbrook, Peter you'll think, sometimes, o' the very old man as was always so full o' noos, won't 'ee, Peter?" "Surely, Ancient, I shall never forget you," said I, and sighed.
"An' I be very old an' tired, Peter; my 'eart be all wore out wi' beatin' an' beatin' all these years 'tis a wonder as it didn't stop afore now but a a stapil, Peter, don't 'ave no 'eart to go a-beatin' an' a-wearin' of itself away?" "No, Ancient." "So 'ere be I, a-standin' in the Valley o' the Shadow, an' waitin' for God's Angel to take my 'and for to show me the way.
Well, as I tell ye, I seen a boot, likewise a leg, an' theer were this 'ere wanderin' man o' the roads a-danglin' be'ind th' door from a stapil look ye!" he exclaimed, rising with some little difficulty, and hobbling into the hut, "theer be th' very stapil, so it be!" and he pointed up to a rusty iron staple that had been driven deep into the beam above the door.
"And why," said I, "why did he hang himself?" "Seein' e' 'ad no friends, and never told nobody nobody never knowed," answered the old man, shaking his head, "but on that theer stapil 'e 'ung 'isself, an' on that theer stapil I fund 'im, on a stormy night sixty and six year ago come August." "You have a wonderful memory!" said I. "Ay, to be sure; a wunnerful mem'ry, a wunnerful mem'ry!"
"Now, Peter, 'twould be a hijious thing a very hijious thing if, when I come a-gatherin' watercress in the marnin', I should find you a-danglin' on t' stapil, cold and stiff like t' other, or lyin' a corp wi' your throat cut; 'twould be a hijious hijious thing, Peter, but oh! 'twould mak' a fine story in the tellin'."
"Oh, Peter! it be that theer old stapil as'll go on rustin' away an' rustin' away arter the old man as watched it so is laid in the earth, an' forgot about " "No," said I, without looking up, but slipping my hand into my pocket; "no, Ancient " "Peter Oh, Peter! do 'ee mean ?"
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