Dowlas, the farrier, has only scorn for ghosts, but several others pity his lack of comprehension. His ghost is said to haunt the stables yet. After the boy died, the father died raving and left all his property to a London charity. Macey says it once belonged to a London tailor who tried to make his son a country gentlemen there. The landlord asks about the land where Mr. This story is familiar to all the hearers, and they put the correct questions to Macey. He decided 'it isn't the meanin', it's the glue.' But when he questioned the rector, the rector informed him that the important thing was the register. Macey, in his capacity as parish clerk, helped to marry them, and he alone noticed that during the ceremony the rector reversed the key phrases, saying, 'Wilt thou have this man to thy wedded wife?' and, 'Wilt thou have this woman to thy wedded husband?' Macey was worried that this would invalidate the ceremony: he couldn't decide whether the meaning or the form was the important thing. Lammeter came to Raveloe from 'a bit north'ard,' bringing his sheep with him. This time, Macey stays on his subject, pausing now and then to admit the customary questions at the usual places.

He then directs the conversation back to the subject of Mr. The landlord again decides the point by allowing that everyone is right and everyone wrong. Macey and Ben Winthrop, leader of the church choir, aim some heavy humor at Tookey for his out-of-tune singing. Macey, before beginning the tale, directs some jibes at his assistant, Mr. The landlord settles the dispute by declaring that they are both right and both wrong. The conversation there has begun slowly this evening, with a mild argument between the farrier and the butcher over a cow that the butcher had slaughtered the day before. The lower classes of Raveloe are gathered at the Rainbow while their betters are attending Mrs.

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