Pomona's Novel
a dog-fightin' gentleman, when I'd often heard you say that, now you was fixed an' settled, the one thing you would like most would be to be made a vestryman.
I sat up straight in my chair.
'No,' says I, 'you keep back, sir'
"Pomona! " I exclaimed, "you didn't tell him that?"
"That's what I said, sir, for I wanted him to know what you really was; an' he says, 'Well, well, I never knew that. It might be a very good thing. I'll speak to some of the members about it. There's two vacancies now in our vestry.'"
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