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He ht have seen other beauties in the landscape if he had turned a little in his saddle and looked eastward, beyond Jonathan Burge's pasture and woodyard towards the green corn-fields and walnut-trees of the Hall Farm; but apparently there was roups close at hand Every generation in the village was there, froht-cap, as bent nearly double, but see on his short stick, down to the babies with their little round heads lolling forward in quilted linen caps Now and then there was a new arrival; perhaps a slouching labourer, who, having eaten his supper, caaze, willing to hear what any one had to say in explanation of it, but by no h to ask a question But all took care not to join the Methodists on the Green, and identify themselves in that ith the expectant audience, for there was not one of the come out to hear the "preacher wooin' on, like" The hbourhood of the blacksathered in a knot Villagers never swar them, and they see Your true rustic turns his back on his interlocutor, throwing a question over his shoulder as if hea step or two farther off when the interest of the dialogue culroup in the vicinity of the blacksmith's door was by no means a close one, and fore, the blacksmith hiainst the door-post, and occasionally sending forth a bellowing laugh at his own jokes, giving them a marked preference over the sarcasms of Wiry Ben, who had renounced the pleasures of the Holly Bush for the sake of seeing life under a new form But both styles of ere treated with equal contempt by Mr Joshua Rann Mr Rann's leathern apron and subdued grie shoe out of his chin and sto of his thumbs are ers for the discovery that they are in the presence of the parish clerk "Old Joshway," as he is irreverently called by his neighbours, is in a state of sination; but he has not yet opened his lips except to say, in a resounding bass undertone, like the tuning of a violoncello, "Sehon, King of the A of Basan: for His mercy endureth for ever"--a quotation whichon the present occasion, but, as with every other anoe will show it to be a natural sequence Mr Rann was inwardly nity of the Church in the face of this scandalous irruption of Methodisnity was bound up with his own sonorous utterance of the responses, his arguested a quotation from the psalm he had read the last Sunday afternoon