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On Monday the town awoke to the rumbling of waggons . They came in from the plantations where since the early June daybreak Squire Willyams 's foresters and gardeners had been cutting young larches , firs , laurels , aucubas . The waggons halted at every door and each householder took as much as he required . So , all that day , Cai and ` Bias packed their arch with evergreens ; until at five o'clock Mr Philp , happening along , could find no chink anywhere in its solid verdure . He called his congratulations up to them as , high on ladders , they affixed flags to the corner poles and looped the whole with festoons of roses . And now for the motto to crown the work ! Fancy Tabb coming up the roadway and pausing while she conned the structure , shading her eyes against the sun-rays that slanted over it , beheld Mrs Bowldler and Palmerston issue from the doorway in solemn procession , bearing between them a length of Turkey twill .