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could be the meaning of a horseman galloping, hat in 

 hand, right into their faces and ours ? Of course that he 

 had " headed the fox " — a crime as heinous (however 

 involuntary), as anything in our social calendar, com- 

 parable only to the sin of ugliness in womankind. The 

 baser sinner in question belonged to a line of life whose 





" he's turned right back, along the top kig o' the greensit piece." 



first burden and duty, in return for wages received and 

 instruction imparted, is to be told home truths with a 

 timely plainness of language that defies mistake. But 

 this good man, unwarned by past visitations or totally 

 lacking the astuteness that (however imperceptible to the 

 eye of the looker-on) seldom fails to stand a second 

 horseman, or a street arab, in good stead, but helps him 

 out of many a difficulty — or, maybe, carried away by a 

 worthy excitement — must needs gallop almost into his 

 master's arms, shouting "He's turned right back, along 



