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His Own Petard 



his steed ; but being at home the master could express 

 himself with freedom, and he soon convinced the man of 

 the impropriety of standing and staring instead of doing 

 his work. 



Pekkinson set off walking homewards 



As for the field, they had what they generally 

 acknowledged to be a rattling good run up to a big pond, 

 beyond which hounds could make nothing of it. The 

 fox could not have drowned himself ; but on the edge of 



