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son and his daughter; and the smaller is a freehold
residence of a certain Miss Le Smyrger, who owned a farm of a hundred
acres, which was rented by one Farmer Cloysey, and who also possessed
some thirty acres round her own house, which she managed herself;
regarding herself to be quite as great in cream as Mr. Cloysey, and
altogether superior to him in the article of cyder. “But yeu has to
pay no rent, Miss,” Farmer Cloysey would say, when Miss Le Smyrger
expressed this opinion of her art in a manner too defiant. “Yeu pays
no rent, or yeu couldn’t do it.” Miss Le Smyrger was an old maid, with
a pedigree and blood of her own, a hundred and thirty acres of fee-
simple land on the borders of Dartmoor, fifty years of age, a
constitution of iron, and an opinion of her own on every subject under
the sun.

And now for the parson and his daughter. The parson’s name was
Woolsworthy–or Woolathy, as it was pronounced by all those who lived
around him–the Rev. Saul Woolsworthy; and his daughter was Patience
Wool