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to be done then. Still less is it to be clone now, when the 

 dread presence of wire o'ershadows many a fence and 

 haunts the whole. It may read like vulgar repetition on 

 my part, but there is now only one among us dare attempt 



The dread presence of wire 



it ; and I say to myself, God speed him, every time I take 

 advantage of his pilotage. A quick eye and a bold one 

 avail much ; but you can't fight, he must not fight, against 

 wire, anv more than you and I liave been able to fight 

 against influenza in the recent dismal past, of early '95. 

 Where were we ? Under Oxendon village, and soon 



