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What two suggestions about parish officials are made in the last two sentences of this excerpt from Charles Dicker
Occasionally, when there was some more than usually interesting inquest upon a parish child who had been overla
bedstead, or inadvertently scalded to death when there happened to be a washing-
though the latter accident was
approaching to a washing being of rare occurrence in the farm-the jury would take it into
their heads to ask troub
parishioners would rebelliously affix their signatures to a remonstrance. But these
impertinences were speedily che
surgeon, and the testimony of the beadle; the former of whom had always opened the body and
found nothing insill
Indeed), and the latter of whom invariably swore whatever the parish wanted; which was very
self
-
devotional. Besid
periodical pilgrimages to the farm, and always sent the beadle the day before, to say they were going.
The children
behold, when they went; and what more would the people have!
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They did not know how to perform their duties.
They deliberately ignored the suffering of the parish children.
They were haughty men who considered themselves very important.
They had a poor opinion of the woman who looked after the children.
They wanted to give the impression that they were performing their work.