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knowing master's objection to stop a neighbour's 

 earths, I stripped the bit o' pink off my back, and 

 laying it over the hole, jumped into the saddle, and 

 were with 'em as soon as they com'd up : and you 

 knows the rest, sir." 



" No, I don't, Jem, but can guess it ; and here's a 

 sovereign for that fox's brush, which you have out- 

 manoeuvred so cleverlv." 



