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incidents sometimes happen in outlying 

 places. 



There is a church among the heather and 

 woods, and a farmhouse by it ; the hamlet is 

 so small that it is not easy to find. One Sun- 

 day morning the clergyman was observed to 

 hesitate in giving out the Psalms, and by-and- 

 by an altercation arose between him and the 

 clerk, one maintaining that it was the 21st and 

 the other that it was the 22nd of the month. 

 At last a sturdy former got up and declared 

 he would fetch the almanac and see. Out 

 he went, and returned in a few minutes 

 chuckling. ' D'd if ee beant both wrong ; it's 

 the 23rd,' said he. The service having now 

 lost its continuity, he suggested, with prac- 

 tical common sense, ' that they shouldn't do 

 no good there now ; they had better come 

 on in and have some cider ; ' and the tale is 

 that they went. 



When the Prince of Wales came down 

 to Exmoor to see a stag chased it chanced 

 as the hunt rode over the moors they came 



