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Chapter 3

36 . The reader will here be reminded of Bunyan's town of


36 . The reader will here be reminded of Bunyan's town of Fairspeech. "Christian. Pray who are you kindred there, if a man may be so bold." "By-ends. Almost the whole town; and in particular my Lord Turnabout, my Lord Timeserver, my Lord Fairspeech, from whose ancestors that town first took its name; also Mr. Smoothman, Mr. Facing- both-ways, Mr. Any-thing, --and the parson of our parish, Mr. Two-tongues, was my mother's own brother by father's side... "There Christian stepped a little aside to his fellow Hopeful, saying, `It runs in my mind that this is one By- ends of Fair- speech; and if it be he, we have as very a knave in our company as dwelleth in all these parts.'"