This etext was prepared by Les Bowler, St. Ives, Dorset. JOHN HALIFAX, GENTLEMAN by Dinah Maria Mulock (Mrs. Craik) CHAPTER I “Get out o’ Mr. Fletcher’s road, ye idle, lounging, little–” “Vagabond,” I think the woman (Sally Watkins, once my nurse), was going to say, but she changed her mind. My father and I both