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'Business, business!' said Mr Swancourt after breakfast He began to find it necessary to act the part of a fly-wheel towards the soo to the church; the vicar, on second thoughts,his foot tooStephen said he should want a man to assist him 'Worm!' the vicar shouted

A minute or two after a voice was heard round the corner of the building, h, but 'tis altered now! Well, there, I'm as independent as one here and there, even if they do write 'squire after their names'

'What's the matter?' said the vicar, as William Worm appeared; when the res soards that word "esquire" Why, Mr Ss,--used on the letters of every jackanapes who has a black coat Anything else, Worain!'

'Dear ly to Stephen, 'I've got such a noise in ht nor day 'Tis just for all the world like people frying fish: fry, fry, fry, all day long in my poor head, till I don't knohe'r I'hty will find it out sooner or later, I hope, and relieve me'

'Now, my deafness,' said Mr Swancourt impressively, 'is a dead silence; but Willia fish in his head Very re as naterel as life,' said Worm corroboratively

'Yes, it is remarkable,' said Mr Smith

'Very peculiar, very peculiar,' echoed the vicar; and they all then followed the path up the hill, bounded on each side by a little stone wall, froments of quartz and blood-redof brown alluviunity of aa stone's throw in the rear, and Elfride was nowhere in particular, yet everywhere; sometimes in front, so about the procession like a butterfly; not definitely engaged in travelling, yet soress

The vicar explained things as he went on: 'The fact is, Mr Smith, I didn't want this bother of church restoration at all, but it was necessary to do so in self-defence, on account of those d----dissenters: I use the word in its scriptural , of course, not as an expletive'