The native of the title is Clym Yeobright, who returns to the area from the …
"... For my part I like a good hearty funeral as well as anything. You've as splendid victuals and drinks as at other parties, and even better. And it don't wear your legs to stumps in talking over a poor fellow's ways as it do to stand up in hornpipes."
— Return of the Native (Penguin Popular Classics) by Thomas Hardy (Page 24)
This reminds me of a scene from A Christmas Carroll, by Charles Dickens.