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and knocking him clean off his legs with 

 his right, till, after six tremendous falls, 

 this terror of the surrounding villages, 

 picking up his clothes, departed. 



Stephen asked him, as he went out, when 

 he was coming to give his master another 

 lesson; while the Baronet, after a copious 

 ablution, re-adjusted his dress, and rejoined 

 his company, who were not at all aware 

 of the nature of the very urgent busi- 

 ness that had called for their host's tem- 

 porary absence. 



I met the butcher a day or two after, 

 who, with his head tied up, gave unequi- 

 vocal marks of his handsome reception at 

 Haydon Grange. 



