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crowd at the inn disperses, making their way through the 

 dark lanes and muddy roads for home ; and the poor coots 

 collect on the hovers, and try to sleep over their experiences, 

 or else rise in a body and seek another broad Horsey 

 Mere, mayhap. 



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COOT'S NEST AND EGGS. (In Sltu.\ 



