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about in that aerial spiral, and mounts and mounts 

 till his pursuers grow dizzy and return to earth 

 again. It it quite original, this mode of getting 

 rid of an unworthy opponent, — rising to heights 

 ■where the braggart is dazed and bewildered and 

 loses his reckoning ! I am not sure but it is wor* 

 tiij of imitation. 



