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keep to the byroads--this ain't no common case, there'll be a

thousand pound on your 'ead afore the week's out--so look spry,

which, he nodded, turned upon his heel, and

strode away, cursing to hi and clink of

hauided by the sound, came to a tumbledown

smithy where was a man busily at work, with a shock-headed boy at

the bellows At sight of me, the smith set down his hammer and

stared open would it take you to file off these shackles?" I

inquired, holding out my hands

"To--to file 'em off?"

"Yes"

"Why, that--that depends--"

"Then do it--as soon as you can" Upon this, thehis tools, with his head

very near that of the shock-headed boy, until, having found a

file suitable to the purpose, he set to work upon ressed so slowly, for one reason and another, that I

began to grow i that the shock-headed

boy had disappeared, I bade him desist