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CHAPTER VI--THE GREAT SEARCH AT NETHER-MOYNTON
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'If the pa'son should see him a trespassing here in his tower, 'twould be none the better for we, seeing how 'a do hate chapel-members.

He'd never buy a tub of us again, and he's as good a customer as we have got this side o' Warm'll.' 'Where is the pa'son ?' said Lizzy.
'In his house, to be sure, that he mid see nothing of what's going on--where all good folks ought to be, and this young man likewise.' 'Well, he has brought some news,' said Lizzy.

'They are going to search the orchet and church; can we do anything if they should find ?' 'Yes,' said her cousin Owlett.

'That's what we've been talking o', and we have settled our line.

Well, be dazed!' The exclamation was caused by his perceiving that some of the searchers, having got into the orchard, and begun stooping and creeping hither and thither, were pausing in the middle, where a tree smaller than the rest was growing.


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