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For example , I have often heard Mr. Gedge , the landlord of the Royal Oak , who used to turn a bloodshot eye on his neighbours in the village of Shepperton , sum up his opinion of the people in his own parish -- and they were all the people he knew -- in these emphatic words : `` Aye , sir , I 've said it often , and I 'll say it again , they 're a poor lot i ' this parish -- a poor lot , sir , big and little . '' I think he had a dim idea that if he could migrate to a distant parish , he might find neighbours worthy of him ; and indeed he did subsequently transfer himself to the Saracen 's Head , which was doing a thriving business in the back street of a neighbouring market-town . But , oddly enough , he has found the people up that back street of precisely the same stamp as the inhabitants of Shepperton -- `` a poor lot , sir , big and little , and them as comes for a go o ' gin are no better than them as comes for a pint o ' twopenny -- a poor lot . '' Church `` HETTY , Hetty , do n't you know church begins at two , and it 's gone half after one a ` ready ? Have you got nothing better to think on this good Sunday as poor old Thias Bede 's to be put into the ground , and him drownded i ' th ' dead o ' the night , as it 's enough to make one 's back run cold , but you must be ` dizening yourself as if there was a wedding i ` stid of a funeral ? '' `` Well , Aunt , '' said Hetty , `` I ca n't be ready so soon as everybody else , when I 've got Totty 's things to put on . And I 'd ever such work to make her stand still . ''