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`` A happy New Year , Blanchard , '' added the landlord . `` Evening , sawls all , '' answered Will , nodding round him . `` Auld year 's like to die o ' frost by the looks of it -- a stinger , I tell ` e. Anybody seen Farmer Endicott ? I 've been looking for un since noon wi ' a message from my faither-in-law . '' `` I gived thicky message this marnin ' , '' cried Billy . `` Ess , I knaw you did ; that 's my trouble . You gived it wrong .