`` No offence , '' says Master John . `` You 've got her reasonable good cheap . I thought ye might not grudge me a groat if I helped move her . '' Ah , he was a masterpiece ! They say that morning 's work cost our John two hundred pounds , and he never winked an eyelid , not even when he saw the guns all carted off to Lewes . ' ` Neither then nor later ? ' said Puck . ` Once . 'T was after he gave St Barnabas ' the new chime of bells . -LRB- Oh , there was nothing the Collinses , or the Hayes , or the Fowles , or the Fenners would not do for the church then ! `` Ask and have '' was their song . -RRB- We had rung 'em in , and he was in the tower with Black Nick Fowle , that gave us our rood-screen . The old man pinches the bell-rope one hand and scratches his neck with t ` other . `` Sooner she was pulling yon clapper than my neck , he says . That was all ! That was Sussex -- seely Sussex for everlastin ' ! ' ` And what happened after ? ' said Una . ' I went back into England , ' said Hal , slowly . ` I 'd had my lesson against pride .
But they tell me I left St XXXXX ' a jewel -- justabout a jewel !
Barnabas England Fenners Fowles John Sussex chime morning pounds rood-screen