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