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"A fair stave, Grandfer Cantle; but I am afeard 'tis too much for the mouldy weasand of such a old man as you," he said to the wrinkled reveller "Dostn't wish th' wast three sixes again, Grandfer, as you hen you first learnt to sing it?"

"Hey?" said Grandfer Cantle, stopping in his dance

"Dostn't ast young again, I say? There's a hole in thy poor belloadays seeood art inways I should seeed man, should I, Timothy?"

"And how about the new-married folks down there at the Quiet Woht in the direction of the distant highway, but considerably apart fro "What's the rights of theman"

"But a little rakish, hey? I own to it Master Cantle is that, or he's nothing Yet 'tis a gay fault, neigbbour Fairway, that age will cure"

"I heard that they were coht By this ti is for us to go and wish 'eht we must I must, or 'twould be very unlike !

"Do thou' put on' a fri'-ar's coat', And I'll' put on' a-no'-ther, And ill to' Queen Ele'anor go', Like Fri'ar and' his bro'ther

I ht, and she toldhome a' Christmas Wonderful clever, 'a believe--ah, I should like to have all that's under that young man's hair Well, then, I spoke to her in my well-known merry way, and she said, 'O that what's shaped so venerable should talk like a fool!'--that's what she said to me I don't care for her, be jowned if I do, and so I told her 'Be jowned if I care for 'ee,' I said I had her there--hey?"

"I rather think she had you," said Fairway

"No," said Grandfer Cantle, his countenance slightly flagging "'Tisn't so bad as that withthat Clyement because his mother is now left in the house alone?"