CHAPTER I.
The Christening—An Outlandish Name—The Organist's Mistake—Farm-work—Tom and Bill—The Baby—Baby and All
ath this child been already baptised, or no?'
'No, she ain't; leastwise we don't know as how she 've been or no, so we thought as we 'd best have her done.'
The clergyman who was taking Mr Clifford's duty at Downside for that Sunday, thought that this might be the usual undecided way of...
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