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"For my part," said Mr. Tedman, "I never enquire into all that, whether it be true, or whether it be false; because it's nothing to me either way; and one wastes a deal of time in idle curiosity, about things that don't concern one; put in case one can't turn them to one's profit."
"That's true, coz," said Mr. Gooch; "for as to profit, there be none to come from foreign parts for they be all main poor thereabout; for, they do tell me, that there be not a man among un, as sets his eyes, above once in his life, or thereabout, upon a golden guinea! And as to roast beef and plum-pudding, I do hear that they do no' know the taste of such a thing. So that they be but a poor stinted race at best, for they can never come to their natural growth."
"What, then, you do believe what folks tell you sometimes, father?" cried the son, grinning.
"To be sure I do, Tim; when they
