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preach from a common cart when there is a pulpit in Capel Sion?”

“Oh, Pedr, Pedr,” Sadrach the Small said, “do we not always say that you ought to judge us in Capel Sion? Sure there is something you can bear witness to before we go on with the old hay. Turn you your mind now, and say sayings to us.”

“Think you truly I ought to be a preacher?” asked Pedr, his eyes shining with vanity. “There’s happy would I be if they'd let me preach from a pulpit bach.”

Sadrach the Large then addressed Pedr: “Preach you to us for ten minutes, and I’ll take a hat round for a collection. Indeed to goodness, I will now.”

“Sadrach! Sadrach!” said Martha, “what for you make such a foolish promise? Man, man, you are as silly as Pedr. Come, little people, have you not rested long enough?”