why the boys used to go birds of a sunday morning and a capital thing ask any farmer and very it was to see the strings o hanging np in poor people s houses you ll not see em nowhere now mr who himself on his reading and waa in the habit of asking casual acquaintances if they knew anything of it is right enough that the lower orders should be instructed but this within the church ought to be put down in point of fact these are not at all there no better than what are they inquired mr who often said his father had given him no and he didn t care who it he could buy up most o th men he d ever come across the said mr in rather a louder tone than before holding that every appeal for information must naturally be addressed to him are a founded in the reign of charles i by a man named john who all the brood of that crawl about in dirty and the lord of the in order to get a few yards of ground for their pigeon house no no said mr you re out there is derived from the word meaning an elder don t contradict me sir i say the word is derived from john a miserable who wore a suit of leather and went about from town to village and from village to hamlet the vulgar with the of come that seems a deal more said mr in a tone apparently of opinion that history was a process of ingenious it s not a question of it s a known fact i could fetch you my and show it to you this moment i don t care a straw sir either for yon or your said mr a of false information of which you picked up an imperfect copy in a cargo of waste paper will you tell mc sir that i don t the origin of i sir a man known through the county with the a� of half a score s while yoa or are ignored by the very that invest the miserable alley in which you are bred a loud and general laugh with you d better let him alone you ll not get the better of in a hurry drowned the retort of the too well informed mr who white with rage rose and walked out of the bar a fellow gentlemen continued mr i was determined to be rid of him what does he mean by thrusting himself into our company a man with about as much principle as he has property which to my knowledge is considerably less than none an gentlemen a fit to sit in the chimney corner of a pot house and make comments on the one greasy newspaper by i will not suffer in my company a man who speaks lightly of religion the signature of a fellow like would be a blot on our protest and how do you get on with your said mr the doctor who had presented his la ge top person within the bar while mr was speaking mr had just returned from one of his long day s rounds among the farm houses in the course of which he had sat down to two hearty meals that might have been mistaken for dinners if be had not declared them to be and as each snap had been followed by a few glasses of mixture containing a less liberal proportion of water than the articles he himself with that name he was in that condition which his groom with poetic by saying that master had been in the sunshine under these circumstances after a hard day in which he had really had no regular meal it seemed a natural to step into the bar of the red lion where as it was saturday evening he should be sure to find and hear the latest news about the protest against the evening lecture have you ben yet he continued as he took two chairs one for his body and the other for his right leg � no said mr the church shaking his head ben has a way of keeping himself in everything and he doesn t like to oppose his father old is a regular but we haven t got your name yet grim tut tut said mr you don t expect to sign he s got a dozen his treatment nothing like cant and for producing a of i thought as had declared himself a we should be sure to get on our side mr was not a man to sit quiet under a sarcasm nature having endowed him with a considerable share of self wit in his most sober moments he had an in his speech and as copious gin and water stimulated not the speech but the he had time to make his retort sufficiently bitter why to tell you the truth he there s a report all over the town that you shall take her you as one of the and they say there s to be a fine crowd at your door the morning you start to see the row knowing your tenderness for that member of the fair sex i thought yoa might find it impossible to deny her hang back a little from on that account as might not take the protest well if went with you mr was a small sleek headed bachelor of five and forty whose scandalous life had long furnished his more moral neighbors with an after dinner joke he had no o her striking characteristic except that he was a of temperament so that you might wonder why he had been chosen as clergyman s if i did not tell you that he had recently been elected through mr s exertions in order that his zeal against the threatened evening lecture might be backed by 