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no way warranted the brute ; he had not recom- 

 mended it. Fearstone had paid the money 

 guided by the hght of his own judgment. He 

 rode off— not very rapidly — vowing vengeance ; 

 but there was no way in which that vengeance 

 could be satisfied. 



The smith, with a twinkle in the corner of his 

 eye, told Flutterton the story, and so it got up 

 to town. 



Thus it appears that sharps may occasionally 

 w^ound themselves. 



