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been a ball bowled at a wicket the precision of his course 

 could not have been truer. Twenty yards could not have 



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intervened between us when my presence became known, 

 and the manner of welcome I received was far from en- 

 couraging, for he halted, sniffed in the air, and gave an an- 



