Well, sir-- ?" "When the rector found that, he excavated more than was absolutely necessary for his purpose, and the deeper he went the more encaustic tiles.

In one place they got down to the foundation, and they found an oak chest fast in the rock--a sort of channel had been cut in the rock for this chest, or rather box (for it was only about eighteen inches long), to lie in.

The master mason was there luckily, and would not move it till the rector had seen it.

He was sent for, but half the parish was there before him; and he tells me there were three theories firmly established and proved, before he could finish his breakfast and get to the spot.

Theory of Wilder, the village grocer: 'It is treasure hidden by them there sly old monks.' Mr.Wilder is a miser, and is known to lay up money.