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| Downright English am I, Sir Knight, and downright English was my patron St Dunstan, and scorned oc and oui, as he would have scorned the parings of the devil's hoof---downright English alone shall be sung in this cell. Still, when he had looked back from the gate, he had seen his mother kneeling among the po- tato parings. They used to come round my door at dusk to nibble the potato parings which I had thrown out, and were so nearly the color of the ground that they could hardly be distinguished when still. |
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