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that day and night, he woke next morning 

 very pale but quite free from his internal 

 pains. Frank was rewarded by local rank of 

 Doctor, and frequent unauthorised supplies 

 of goat's milk. 



That night we had a grand dinner, enter- 

 taining the shepherds with my old billy goat, 

 while we fed on mutton ; and after dinner, 

 havino; thrown on fresh losrs and lio^hted our 

 pipes, we made a musical night of it — Frank 

 wakino; the echoes with ' John Peel,' ' The 

 place where the old horse died,' and similar 

 sporting ditties (which, unfortunately, I had 

 to translate), and the men in return crooning 

 some of their native songs. 



