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As the day advanced, the sun beat doith an ever-increasing

heat, and ith this and the dust I presently grew very

thirsty; wherefore, as I went, I

visions of ale--of ale that foaurgled deliciously froan to look about ht be realized andthirst nobly

quenched (as such a thirst deserved to be) On I went, through

this beautiful land of Kent, past tree and hedge and s upland, while ever the sun

grew hotter, the winding road the dustier, andthe brow of a hill, I espied a slare of the road, seereat tree, and joyfully I hastened

toward it

As I approached I heard loud voices, raised as though in

altercation, and a hat ca into the road, rolled over and over todown at it, I saw that it was a very ill-used

hat, frayed and worn, dented of crown and broken of brim, yet

beneath its sordid shabbiness there lurked the dim semblance of

what it had once been, for, in the scratched and tarnished

buckle, in the jaunty curl of the brim, it still preserved a