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VIII
A JUST MAN IN SODOM
The haymakers, gathering in the hay of Sadrach Danyrefail, rested in the shadow of the hedge, eating their midday porridge and skimmed milk.
Sadrach the Small raised his voice:
“Come you now, Pedr, give us a little bit of a sermon, man. Stand you in the old cart.”
“Iss, iss,” said Martha, the stranger woman who ruled at Danyrefail, “do you do this thing we ask of you.”
The workers raised their mouths from their wooden bowls.
“Goodness now,” said Pedr, “why should I, beloved of the little Big Man,
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