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-- The easy man Who sits at his own door; and, like the pear That overhangs his head from the green wall, Feeds in the sunshine. -WORDSWORTH (_Reflective Poems_).
The fruit in the rectory garden, the pears from the rector's own tree, had all been culled; Madam Tutterville had seen to that. And where she ruled, if there was always abundance of the choicest description, there was no waste.