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in consequence of Archie's keenness of percep- 

 tion or the intentness of his researches into the 

 stag's interior I can't say ; but I feel rightly served 



ARCHIE PULLS DOWN THE ROYAL. 



by the miss-fire, and rather ashamed of myself, as 

 indeed I ought to be. When his bloody work is 



