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At the landlord 's last words , he turned round , smiling , -- ` It is not often that parsons know how to keep land in order , is it ? ' ` Beg pardon , sir , but I must speak as I find ; and Minister Holman -- we call the Church clergyman here `` parson , '' sir ; he would be a bit jealous if he heard a Dissenter called parson -- Minister Holman knows what he 's about as well as e'er a farmer in the neighbourhood . He gives up five days a week to his own work , and two to the Lord 's ; and it is difficult to say which he works hardest at . He spends Saturday and Sunday a-writing sermons and a-visiting his flock at Hornby ; and at five o'clock on Monday morning he 'll be guiding his plough in the Hope Farm yonder just as well as if he could neither read nor write . But your dinner will be getting cold , gentlemen . ' So we went back to table . After a while , Mr Holdsworth broke the silence : -- ` If I were you , Manning , I 'd look up these relations of yours .