Thank ye, measter," said he, as I put something into his hand; "thank ye kindly; 'tis not every one gives me a shilling nowadays who comes to see the church, but times are very different from what they were when I was young; I was not sexton then, but something better; helped Mr..

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with his horses, and got many a broad crown.

Those were the days, measter, both for men and horses--and I say, measter, if men and horses were so much better when I was young than they are now, what, I wonder, must they have been in the time of Oliver and his men ?".