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accountable for the roundabout's lurches, 

 whicli very soon nearly demolished his poor 

 old master, and he gave his equipage up. 



Thus did the good old Stornowegians show 

 their kind feeling towards the man, and every 

 one tried to possess some relic of one they so 

 truly and justly appreciated. For some time I 

 felt like a fish out of water, my play-fellow 

 gone, and it was not long before I learnt how 

 ill I could do without him. Therefore, should 

 this meet Shippy's eye, let it not ruffle him — 

 as, if I know him, it will not — that I have had 

 my laugh at some of his ways. The object 

 of these reminiscences is to harm or gall none, 

 but to recall happy days engraven on my own 

 recollection, and I flatter myself on that of 

 others ; and thus not only cheer up my own 

 decline, but win a smile from those who shared 

 with me those bygone times. The pleasures 

 of memory and imagination being all that are 

 left him, pardon the garrulous old fool if he 

 spins them out to such an extent. 



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