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old tower of
reached the
PANTS.'
West Endelstow Church
last
weeks of
its
was to be replaced by a new
and poles had arrived
existence.
one.
Planks
in the churchyard^
iron bars had been thrust into the vener-
down
the belfry wall
to the foundation, the bells
had been taken
able crack extending
down, the owls had forsaken their forefathers,
and
six
home of
this
iconoclasts
in
whom a cracked edifice of Mumbo Jumbo, had taken
white fustian, to ^vas a species
lodgings in the village previous to
mencing the actual removal of the
stones.
This was the day after Knight's
To enjoy
for
com-
arrival.
the last time the prospect
seaward from the summit, the
vicar,
Mrs.
