A won ` erful place for bees an ' ducks 't is too . ' ` An ' old , ' Tom went on . ` Flesh an ' Blood have been there since Time Everlastin ' Beyond . Well , now , speakin ' among themselves , the Marsh men say that from Time Everlastin ' Beyond , the Pharisees favoured the Marsh above the rest of Old England . I lay the Marsh men ought to know . They 've been out after dark , father an ' son , smugglin ' some one thing or t ` other , since ever wool grew to sheep 's backs . They say there was always a middlin ' few Pharisees to be seen on the Marsh . Impident as rabbits , they was . They 'd dance on the nakid roads in the nakid daytime ; they 'd flash their liddle green lights along the diks , comin ' an ' goin ' , like honest smugglers . Yes , an ' times they 'd lock the church doors against parson an ' clerk of Sundays . ' ` That ` ud be smugglers layin ' in the lace or the brandy till they could run it out o ' the Marsh . I 've told my woman so , ' said Hobden . ` I 'll lay she did n't belieft it , then -- not if she was a Whitgift . A won ` erful choice place for Pharisees , the Marsh , by all accounts , till Queen Bess 's father he come in with his Reformatories . ' ` Would that be a Act of Parliament like ? ' Hobden asked . ` Sure-ly . Ca n't do nothing in Old England without Act , Warrant an ' Summons . He got his Act allowed him , an ' , they say , Queen Bess 's father he used the parish churches something shameful . Justabout tore the gizzards out of I dunnamany .
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