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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