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this ain't one on 'em ! " Next time you view two gloveless 

 individuals picking and preparing wet turnips in a north- 

 east wind, think of this comparison, and tell me if this 

 utterance was not tolerably well-timed. 



What weather may have been going on, meanwhile, 

 upon the plains I can only judge from the fact that the 

 gallop home to Rugby was for the most part across fields 



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We are getting on capitally " 



tolerably soft and passably green ; and that, looking back, 

 the view was bounded by the bleak snow-mountains of 

 Cold Ashby and Hemplow that we had left behind. Even 

 here, it was not all grass or good going : e.g., after a 

 couple of miles' warm galloping, my companion turned in 

 his saddle to close a gate that had let us into the high-road. 

 " We are getting on capitally," quoth he, and the sentence 

 was barely out of his mouth before the old horse flopped 

 down on one side of the road, while the well-contented 



