Nd horse which had brought the body thither stood silently by. The
singers and musicians from Chalk-Newton halted, and looked on while the
gravediggers shovelled in and trod down the earth, till, the hole being
filled, the latter threw their spades into the cart, and prepared to
depart. 'Who mid ye be a-burying there?' asked Lot Swanhills in a raised
voice. 'Not the sergeant?' The Sidlinch men had been so deeply engrossed
in their task that they had not noticed the lanterns of the Chalk-Newton
choir till now. 'What--be you the Newton carol-singers?' returned the
representatives of Sidlinch. 'Ay, sure. Can it be that it
