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 24. MERRY TALES.

TALE VII.

A COUNTRY Clergyman meeting a neigh- bour who never came to church, although an old fellow of about fifty, he gave him ſome reproof on that account, and aſked him if he never read at home? No, replied the clown, I cannot read. I dare ſay, ſaid the parſon, you don't know who made you? Not. I, in troth cried the coun- try man. A little boy coming, by at the ſame time, who made you child ? ſaid the parſon, God Sir, ſaid the boy-Why look you there, quoth the Clergyman, are you not aſhamed to hear a child of five or ſix years old, tell me who made him, when you that are ſo old a man, cannot !--Ah! ſaid the country man, it is no wonder that he ſhould remember; he was made but t'other day, and it is a long while meaſter ſince I was made.

FINIS.

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