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and driven away to one of the aforesaid places like 

 a culprit in olden days being taken to be hung at 

 Tyburn. It is pitiable to think of the unpleasant 

 feelings he must have on such occasions, with perhaps 

 the assurance that if he goes well and gives a good 

 run, he will be called upon to repeat the per- 

 formance on the earliest day that he is refreshed 

 enough with quiet and plenty of beans and such-like 

 good things, to undertake another job. Where is 

 that proud look that he was wont to have, as he 

 tossed his antlered head in the air, and was ready 

 to bid defiance to everything and everybody, and 

 seemed to say " Come on ! " It is all gone, and 

 though his symmetry in other respects remains, he 

 looks thoroughly ashamed of his appearance, and 

 seems to feel that, if he had a more asinine tail, he 

 might be taken for some costermonger's donkey out 

 for a holiday. With his hair cut that is to say, 

 with horns cut off close, his brow antlers, which are 

 his great protection and with which he might 

 damage the hounds, served the same he looks a 

 perfect guy. 



Having left his prison van, or what is called having 

 been uncarted, he is doomed to go somewhere, and 

 after a short space of time the hounds are laid on. 



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