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ended I help him to drag the beast down the 

 hill, he taking the horns and I steering, plough 

 fashion, with his hind legs to avoid collisions with 

 rocks and stones and subsidences into inconvenient 

 dips and hollows. 



So, eventually, we got him down to Donald, who 

 had likewise concluded his sanguinary rites in regard 

 to Clubfoot ; and the lad with the ponies having, with 

 the sort of instinct which never seems to fail him 

 on these occasions, turned up at a handy distance, 

 the two stags are soon mounted and scientifically 

 strapped on the ponies, and after a few struggles 

 with soft ground we attain the comparative solidity 

 of the springy hill path, and " down the shaggy 

 side," we " wind with joyous march our glad array. 

 I know of no more comfortable sensation or posi- 

 tion than after a good day's work with a happy 

 result, to quietly stroll down the hill, smoking the 

 pipe of contentment, following your spoil, whose 

 branching heads your eye hardly ever bears to 

 leave, as they undulate from side to side with 



