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It was a ri on the

outside ofthere all

night, and using thefor a pocket-handkerchief Now, I saw the

darass, like a coarser sort of

spiders' webs; hanging itself froate, wet lay claer on the post directing people to our village--a

direction which they never accepted, for they never came there--was

invisible to me until I was quite close under it Then, as I looked up

at it, while it dripped, it see ot out upon the , everything seeuiltyat h the mist, as if they cried as plainly

as could be, "A boy with Somebody's else's pork pie! Stop hi out of their eyes,

and stea thief!" One black

ox, with a white cravat on,--who even had toof a clerical air,--fixed me so obstinately with his eyes,

and moved his blunt head round in such an accusatory manner as I moved

round, that I blubbered out to him, "I couldn't help it, sir! It wasn't