'_'Tis_ a black shame,' he said; 'why conno they let t' owd pew bide ?' 'Ah, weel,' said the woman with a sigh, 'as I said afore, I'st be reet sorry when Miss Charlotte's seat's gone.

But yo conno ha brawlin i' church.

William's reet enough there.' And beginning to be alarmed lest she should be raising up fresh trouble for William in the person of this strange, foreign-looking lad, with his eyes like 'live birds,' she hurried him on to the vestry, where the visitors' books were being displayed.

Here the Byronic young man was attempting to pick a fresh quarrel with the sexton, by way of recovering himself with his party.

But he took little by it; the sexton was a tough customer.