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THE KNOT THERE'S NO UNTYING.
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times another—'tis quite heart-rending—enough to make your hair stand on end.'

'Those things don't happen very often, I know,' said Fancy, with smouldering uneasiness.

'Well, really 'tis time Dick was here,' said the tranter.

'Don't keep on at me so, grandfather James and Mr. Dewy, and all you down there!' Fancy broke out, unable to endure any longer. 'I am sure I shall die, or do something, if you do.'

'Never you hearken to these old chaps, Miss Day!' cried Nat Callcome, the best man, who had just entered, and threw his voice upward through the chinks of the floor as the others had done. ''Tis all right; Dick's coming on like a wild feller; he'll be here in a minute. The hive o' bees his mother gie'd en for his new garden swarmed jist as he was starting, and he

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