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Truth to one's word has always pass'd
For hard; but you may just as well
Prove it purely impossible,—
If you've an eye for argument.—
There, let this Promise-question be!
Come tell me !
The Sexton.
Hist!
The Schoolmaster.
What is it?
The Sexton.
Hark
The Schoolmaster.
I hear the organ play!
The Sexton.
'Tis he.
The Schoolmaster.
The Pastor?
The Sexton.
Even so.
The Schoolmaster.
Save the mark
But he is out betimes!
The Sexton.
I guess
He stirr'd no pillow yesternight.
The Schoolmaster.
What do you say?