Excerpt from The Village Comedy, Vol. 2 of 3 Mrs. Biggins feeding her pigeons in front of the Pleiades - so tame that they fly up to her hand - looks picturesque. It was a brilliant morning, and, as one of the Misses Conway remarked to Manly Frowde when pass1ng his gate, it was strange to have just been saying the prayer, Lighten our dark ness. The new vicar being of an undecided temperament, and anxious to please every one, had arranged morning prayer at twelve o'clock, that the school-children might attend without interference with their les sons - though whether it pleased the child ren to have their play-time taken is doubt ful. Then the vicar's mind was perplexed as to whether midday was matins or even. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.