I'T^TEK pk;skin ! • 



do now. The Duke drove his six richly-caparisoned lie. 

 whose fl-i — ••■ - manes were entwined with a luxuriance ut 

 ribbon, a- ■ long tails were protected from the mud by 



midway (;;atherings of the same material. Peter was then 

 in the flush of youth. His plump, healthy cheeks glowed 

 rubicund beneath the powder of his well-pomatomed hair, 

 terminating behind his lace-daubed velvet cap in a knotty pig- 

 tail, the buttons and gold lace of his jacket almost concealed 

 the rich scarlet of the material, while his well-cleaned leathers 

 fit so tight and close as to cause astonishment to the beholders 

 how he ever got into them. The youthful Peter on th ' 

 looked like the rosebud to his bloon-''^ ',.1. .• , . 

 radiant in all the magnificence of a : 

 hat, projecting pig-tail, be; 

 stomach without end. 



When the D' 



•• "ir ; and •• ' 

 I complin 

 \\ hat aniomi' 





the first st;... 

 )rtly after ch;< 



and pros] 

 ^, Peter soon ;■ 

 • '■• '■-'■rn in bi 

 .ally 1 

 and g.' 



to 



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hic HI'S 

 .J J a littltg 

 out on th«fl 

 md. Somei, 

 1- neigh bourhoojjjl 

 it xo hire, a horse t()) 

 y .'■:, ;i.irley for malting tj 

 rt, and being there he woi ;i< 



see them " find." Jusi stay to see them finc/^ 



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