find the turkey s nest t i have the half crown put into my money box we ll see about that my lad if you walk along now like a good boy the father and mother exchanged a glance of amusement at their eldest bom s but on s round face there was a cloud mother he said half crying s got ever so much more money in his box nor i ve got in me want half a in s d hush hush hush said mrs did ever any body hear such naughty children nobody shall ever see their money boxes any more if tliey don t make haste and go on to church this dreadful threat had the desired effect and through the two fields the three pair of small legs trotted on without any serious interruption notwithstanding a small pond full of which the lads looked at wistfully the damp hay that must be ed and turned afresh tomorrow was not a cheering sight to mr who ing hay and com est had often some mental struggles as to the benefits of a day of rest but no temptation would have induced him to carry on any field work however early in the morning on a sunday for had not michael had a i ur of oxen while he was on good friday that was demonstration that work on sacred days was a wicked thing with wickedness of any sort martin was quite clear that be would have nothing to do since money got by such means would never prosper it a most makes your fingers to be at the hay now the son shines so be observed as they passed through the big meadow but it s poor to think o saving by going conscience there s that jim as they used to call gentleman used to do tjie same of a sunday as o week days and took no heed to right or wrong as if there was god nor devil an what s he come to why i saw him myself last market day a a basket wi in t ah to be emphatically yon make but a poor trap to catch luck if you go and bait it by wickedness the money as is got so s like to bum holes i your pocket i d wish to leave our lads a sixpence but what was got i the way and as for the weather there s one above makes it and we must put up wi t it s nothing of a plague to what the are notwithstanding the in their walk the excellent habit which mrs s clock had of taking time by the had secured their arrival at the village while it was stiu a quarter to two though almost every one who meant to go to church was already the yard gates those who staid at home were chiefly mothers like s who stood at her own door nursing her baby and feeling as women fee in that position � that nothing else can he expected of them it was not entirely to see s funeral that the were standing about the church yard so long before the service began that was their common practice the women indeed usually entered the church at once and the farmer s wives talked in an under tone to each other over the tall about their and the total failure of doctors tea and other home made as far � about the servants and growing as to wages whereas the quality of their service declined from year to year and there was no girl nowadays to be any farther than you could see her � about the bad price mr the was giving for butter and the reasonable doubts that might be held as to his that mrs was a sensible woman and they were all sorry for her for she had very good kin meantime the men lingered outside and hardly any of them except the singers who had a humming and to go through entered the church until mr was in the de e they saw no reason for that premature entrance � what could they do in church if they were there before the service began � and they did not conceive that any power in the universe could take it ill if they staid out and talked a little about bis ness ci looks like quite a new acquaintance to day for he has got his clean sunday face which always mates his little grand daughter cry at as a stranger but an experienced eye would have fixed on him at once as the village after seeing the humble deference with which the big fellow took off his hat and his hair to the farmers for was accustomed to say that a working man must hold a candle to� � a personage understood to be as black as he was himself on week days by which evil sounding rule of conduct he meant what was after all rather virtuous than otherwise namely that men who had horses to be shod must be treated with respect and the sort of workmen kept aloof from the grave under the white where the burial was going forward but sandy jim and several of the farm made a group round it and stood with their hats off as fellow with the mother and sons others held a position sometimes watching the group at the grave sometimes to the conversation of the farmers who stood in a knot near the church door and were now joined by martin while his family passed into the church on the outside of this knot stood mr the landlord of the arms in his most striking attitude � that is to say with the forefinger of his right hand thrust between the buttons of his waistcoat his left hand in his adam breeches pocket and his head very 