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The sun was already westering when I ca the handle I worked it vigorously, then, placing

spout, drank and pumped,

alternately, until I had quenched ry, and re the bread and cheese inspot in which to eat

On one side of the road was a thick hedge, and, beneath this

hedge, a deep, dry, grassy ditch; and here, after first slipping

off my knapsack, I sat down, took out the loaf and the cheese,

and opening my clasp-knife, prepared to fall to

At this ular fashion, for

hearing a rustling close by, I looked up, and into a face that was

protruded through a gap in the hedge above lance at the battered hat with its jaunty briard, devil-nize the individual who before

It was a very thin face, as I have said, pale and hollow-eyed and

framed in black curly hair, whose very blackness did but accentuate

the extreht, and drawn above

the cheek bones and angle of the jaw Yet, as I looked at this