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`` Yes , '' replied the servant , `` and I was very sorry to hear it . '' `` Did you attind the berrin ? '' `` No , but my master did , '' replied the man ; `` for , indeed , his respect for your wife was very great , Mr. Connell . '' This was before ten o'clock in the forenoon , and about one in the afternoon a stout countryman was seen approaching the gentleman 's house , with another man bent round his neck , where he hung precisely as a calf hangs round the shoulders of a butcher , when he is carrying it to his stall . `` Good Heavens ! '' said the owner of the mansion to his lady , `` what has happened to John Smith , my dear ? Is he dead ? ''