Note 1 — Chapter III · THE DIPPING-POOL
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“‘Lawk, you poor foondy1 woman,’ says father, ‘do parson have straw round a’s legs? ’Tis the skeercrow.’ An’ when he found how the dummy had cheated him out o’ his beer, never could he look one i’ the face again. ’Twas crewel, that it was.”