Mr. Thomas Reid, the sexton, was heard to remark from time to time that he "didn't hold with th'm Newfangle fashins in dress;" but he was a regular old conservative, and most people agreed with Mr. Abraham Boosey of the Duke's Head, who had often been to London, and who said she did "look just A one, slap up, she did!"
"A Tale of a Lonely Parish"
F. Marion Crawford