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"Yes," added I, "and there's Sam 

 Goodman does the same." 



" Then why not you and I, boy ? " 

 enquired he. 



Now, I knew very well that if I con- 

 sented the thing would be done ; but as 

 such an arrangement would displace the 

 man who drove the opposite day from 

 Ely, I demurred though in the rest of 

 the journey up, I thought a great deal 

 about it. 



In the first place, I had had enough 

 of the Fens ; my family was on the 

 increase, my wife's health was not very 

 good, and she was a long way from her 

 friends at St. Albans, as I was from my 

 native Hampshire. I therefore concluded 

 that such an alteration would be very 

 beneficial, as I should have but one 

 home, and a double benefit every 

 day. 



Consequently, on my return to Ely, I on 

 the following morning waited on my friend 



