CHAPTER III 



BREAKING 



Bless me, I am over another fence, 

 and picking out a place in the next ! 

 Only fancy having written two chapters, 

 and starting another! A hundred times 

 I have been on the verge of tearing up 

 the whole lot, and having no more of 

 this terrible job. I have counted the 

 words on the lines, and the lines on the 

 pages, and calculated how many will fill 

 a book. I remember indulging in this 

 sort of thing over my first essay at 

 school, and I suppose it is so with every 

 one who writes a first book. My people 

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