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Under The Greenwood Tree; Or, The Mellstock Quire 9789357274647 to use gambling at aThomas Hardy, an English author, wrote a book titled Under the Greenwood Tree: A Rural Painting of the Dutch School. The Mellstock Parish Choir, a group of west gallery musicians, and one of their members, Dick Dewy, who develops a romantic interest in the attractive new local schoolmistress Fancy Day, are the protagonists of the novel. Dick first notices Fancy when the choir and fiddlers are making their rounds in Mellstock village on Christmas Eve