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followed with similar experience, but left the wreck in a 

 less accommodating condition than ever ; while Mr. Lamb, 

 I believe, turned up stream, and found his way over a 

 little higher. As for the rest, they were most of them now 

 in unhappiest plight. Just as happened at another bridge 



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The huntsman led over the broken causeway 



of old — "Those behind cried forward, while those in front 

 cried back," and progress was impossible either way — their 

 misery in some degree alleviated by the comforting sound 

 of " Tallyho — back ! " Some few, however, warned by Lord 

 Willoughby de Broke, who on some previous recent date 

 had discovered the collapse of the path, turned at once 

 from the entrance of the trap, made all haste round the 



