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"What about you?" he said, re for the first tiirl alone and unchaperoned

Nell laughed

"Oh, she would not be anxious aboutout

for a ride--when I can borrow a horse fro the

_Annie Laurie_ with old Brownie; but she'll be anxious about you You're

an invalid, you know"

"Notthis arm," he said

As they climbed the hill, they came upon Dick mounted upon a horse the

like of which Nell had never seen; and she stopped dead short and stared

at hi hi shut

up in that stuffy railway box"

"That's right," said Vernon "Like him?"

"Like him?" responded Dick, with the superlative of approval; "never

rode a horse to equal hiood And"--in an

undertone--"the sidesaddle has come"

But Nell, whose ears were sharp, heard him

"Who is the sidesaddle for?" she asked, innocently and ungrammatically

Vernon took the bull by the horns