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The old lady, who was much less deaf on this subject than on any other, replied in the affirmative.

Miller, who, not being quite so much absorbed as he ought to have been, contrived to commit various high crimes and misdemeanours, which excited the wrath of the fat gentleman to a very great extent, and called forth the good-humour of the old lady in a proportionate degree.

"'I remember it well,' said the old woman; 'I remember it quite well.

" 'And their children also have children,' said the old sailor; 'yes, those are our grand-children, full of strength and vigor.

Over their tea Levin heard all about the old man's farming.

"Thank you," said the old man, and he took the glass, but refused sugar, pointing to a lump he had left.

No one in the village enjoyed the approach of "veast day" more than Tom, in the year in which he was taken under old Benjy's tutelage.

Past the old church, and down the footpath, pottered the old man and the child hand-in-hand early on the afternoon of the day before the feast, and wandered all round the ground, which was already being occupied by the "cheap Jacks," with their green- covered carts and marvellous assortment of wares; and the booths of more legitimate small traders, with their tempting arrays of fairings and eatables; and penny peep-shows and other shows, containing pink-eyed ladies, and dwarfs, and boa-constrictors, and wild Indians.