St Nicholas [serial] . a yard of snuff! And as he went down Hyburn Hill, a-\vhistling blithe and cheery, He met the market-woman, who came out from County Kerry, With basket balanced on her head, and panniers at her side,She bobbed to Master Merrivein; and this was whatshe cried: 108 THE ENVIABLE ERRAND OF MASTER MERRIVEIN. IO9 Arrah, now, pretty gintleman! Coom, sthop awhile an buy!I ve spectacles to match the rogue a-twinklin in yer eye!Wid neckerchiefs an finger-rings — most beauchiful they re shinin!To suit ye dacintly an grand, I 11 sthraightway be divinin. But Master Merrivein, the wise,

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St Nicholas [serial] . a yard of snuff! And as he went down Hyburn Hill, a-\vhistling blithe and cheery, He met the market-woman, who came out from County Kerry, With basket balanced on her head, and panniers at her side,She bobbed to Master Merrivein; and this was whatshe cried: 108 THE ENVIABLE ERRAND OF MASTER MERRIVEIN. IO9 Arrah, now, pretty gintleman! Coom, sthop awhile an buy!I ve spectacles to match the rogue a-twinklin in yer eye!Wid neckerchiefs an finger-rings — most beauchiful they re shinin!To suit ye dacintly an grand, I 11 sthraightway be divinin. But Master Merrivein, the wise, he sagely shook his head,And to the market-woman these mysterious words he said: Of red alpaca buy a pound; a yard of mitts and muff;Green flour in a wooden crock, and half a skein of snuff— Begone ! that market-womancried ; the likes of yeshould knowA dacint market-woman 11 not betrated so ! Down Hyburn Hill she followed him,with hard and furious pace, Till nigh the hurrying throng outsidethe Durley

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