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conclusion of the wire. It had been removed for twenty 

 yards by some freak of the farmer, for hay-carrying pur- 

 poses probably. There he stood, helplessly barred, con- 

 tent to go back or to wander round maybe till now, but 



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His graceless playmate galloped past 



that a yell, irreverent and inexcusable, rang in his ear : 

 " Get on, Bartimeus, hanging about " — and his graceless 

 playmate galloped past, slap through what seemed to the 

 lingerer a treble-stranded upright of iron. 



CHAPTER XLIII 



COUNTY TIPPERARY 



October 1 893. — If the London and North-Western lay their 

 metals deftly, and the Great Southern and Western carry you 

 on almost equally smoothly when once you have reached the 

 further shore, there is, alas ! neither bridge nor pavement 

 'twixt Holyhead and Kingston ; and the road, such as it is, 



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