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THE BEST OF THE FUN 



wake ; and feeling himself now duly authorised, bounded 

 over with a rollicking spring that seemed never-ending for 

 height and distance. Indeed from this moment he never 

 laid iron to wood, nor trifled with a stick. " Stick " did I 

 say ? Our new.^st ox-rails in the Shire are sticks by com- 



Ly^ 



Bounded over with a rollicking spring 



parison ; these were, every one one of them, half as thick 

 through as a railway sleeper. 



swish tfnTJ''' '^'"f ^''^'^""^S confidence with each 



tu n to , r' ?u ^"'^'^'"^ '^^^'^^g^ -^th each quiet 



re urn to terra fir ma, I had by no means brought myself to 



wtTth" r""";^f. "^ ^^""- '^^^ "-^ question' as d 



of^ he CO, ntr, °' ^! '""^^^ °'- -g-g' the old-time fence 



the countiy, built at a period when men merely piled up 



