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Once they stopped at a faro in and ask for a drink of oblets of warm milk

From time to ti, and yet it wasn't What worried her was the thought that Betty

would be

spoiled Every now and then she turned her head and sighed

contentedly; the road to rearas always clear

"Follow ly

A stone wall, three feet high, ran along at their right The

foreground was hard and fir the reins on the filly's

withers, she ht for the wall, cleared it, and drew up on the

other side Now, Max hadn't the least idea that the horse under hiht very well say that he took his life in his

hands as he followed her But Dandy knew his business He took the

ithout effort A warloent over Max when he found that he

hadn't broken his neck Together they galloped down the field and came

back for the return jump This, too, was erous pastiht o'clock they turned toward hos

"It has been a delightful ride," suggested Max, with an eye to the

future

"I take this road nearly everyout upon the

water, which was ruffling itself and quarreling along the sandy shores