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who, since nursery days, had troubled me 
very little; but when I arrived out West, 
he was waiting for me, and, so that I need 
never be without him, he divided him- 
self into a band of little imps. 
Each imp had a special duty, and 
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alone in the mountains, and the imp 
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quaked at the sight of a gun, and the 
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GP when on a horse. All these had been 
(Ke) conquered, or at least partially re- 
duced to subjection, but the imp who 
sat on the saddle pommel when there 
svat was a ditch or stream to be jumped had 
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