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"Ay, it did Look yonder," he said "That's the norrard It looks
light, don't it?"
"Yes," I said
"Ah! it never gets no darker than that all night You'll see that get
her to London"
So it proved, for by degrees I saw the stars in the north-east pale; and
by the tiht
ladder putting out the lae that it
should be broad daylight, while, as we jolted over the paving-stones as
ent farther, the light had got well round now to the east, and the
daylight affected Ike, for as, after a long silence, we suddenly heard
once more from the top of the baskets: "I've been to Paris and I've been to Dover!"
Ike took up the old song, and in a rough, but not unmusical voice roared
out the second line: "I've been a-travelling all the world over"
Or, as he gave it to match Do-ho-ver--"O-ho-ver" And it seereat traveller, for that was London all before olden line above it in the sky