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The stronger curiosity of the woe of the Green, where they could examine more closely the Quakerlike costume and odd deportment of the female Methodists Underneath the ht froht's to serve as a pulpit, and round this a couple of benches and a few chairs had been placed So on these, with their eyes closed, as if wrapt in prayer or , and had turned their faces towards the villagers with a look ofto Bessy Cranage, the blackshbours as Chad's Bess, ondered "why the folks war amakin' faces a that'ns" Chad's Bess was the object of peculiar co turned back under a cap which was set at the top of her head, exposed to view an ornament of which she was e round ear-rings with false garnets in them, ornaments condemned not only by the Methodists, but by her own cousin and na, often wished "theh retaining herbeen the wife of Sandy Jim, and possessed a handsoh toin her arms, and the sturdy fellow of five in knee-breeches, and red legs, who had a rusty milk-can round his neck by way of drum, and was very carefully avoided by Chad's s olive-branch, notorious under the na disposition, unchecked by any false roup of wo round the Methodists, looking up in their faces with his ainst the milk-can by way ofdown to take hirave reorously, then took to his heels and sought refuge behind his father's legs

"Ye gallows young dog," said Sandy Jim, with some paternal pride, "if ye donna keep that stick quiet, I'll tek it from ye What dy'e mane by kickin' foulks?"

"Here! Gie hie; "I'll tie hirs up an' shoe him as I do th' hosses Well, Mester Casson," he continued, as that personage sauntered up towards the group of roon? They say folks allays groon when they're hearkenin' to th' Methodys, as if they war bad i' th' inside I ht, an' then the praicher 'ull think I'ht way"