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enough. This we knew was true. To his great 

 astonishment his friend presently told how he had 

 heard the other, had watched, twigged the joke, 

 and later had slipped out and shifted the board ; 

 also, of course, intending to tell later. 



They had a lot of fun over it, and hearty were 

 their guffaws. Finally, after those grand fellows 

 had laughed and slapped each other's backs like big 

 care-free boys, I well, I told my story. It was a 

 pity our host was not there to join us. For such 

 high church folk we certainly played it low down. 



