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which I was not out of yet. I had to get 

 back down the meadow to yonder tall white 

 gate; when I got over that I was still a 

 prisoner on railway premises, and no outlet 

 into the road but tramping back towards the 

 station, where I ran the risk of being locked 

 up as a trespasser ! The fence between the 

 rail and the road was here a very high black 

 boarded one, quite impossible to get over. 

 I followed this for a considerable distance 

 till I came to a place where a couple of 

 boards had been knocked off. "I think," 

 said I to myself, " I think I can squeeze 

 through that opening." I tried it, but it was 

 no go. I managed to get one side through, 

 but for the life of me I couldn't get the 

 other half through. A very pretty exhibition 

 I had made of myself, half through and half 

 not ! I struggled back and wandered on dis- 

 consolately till I came to a timber-yard not 

 a soul to be seen anywhere. I wandered 

 about that yard for some time, till I came to 

 a door with a great padlock on it. I thought 

 it useless to try that ; but I did try it, and to 

 my delight it let me into the turnpike road. 

 I got home eventually rather fatigued. It 



