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"Instead of crawling in a dog-cart with me Thank you, Mrs Nevill"

"You needn't thank ain Stanistreet wondered whether Mrs Nevill was very siave the mare a cut across the flanks that

made her leap in the shafts

"That was silly of you She'll have her heels through before you knohere you are She's a demon to kick, is Scarum"

Scaru

furiously, and the little dog-cart rocked from side to side Mrs

Nevill Tyson rose to her feet

"Strikes me you can't drive a little bit," said she

"Please sit down, Mrs Tyson" But Mrs Tyson re to keep her balance like a s sea

"Get up"

Stanistreet ht the

words "darab at the rail in an undignified

ht hand, and with his left ar her there when Farmer Ashby

turned out of a by-lane and followed close behind them And Farmer Ashby

had a nice tale to tell at "The Cross-Roads" of how he had seen the

Captain driving with his arm round Mrs Tyson's waist

That was another stone

Stanistreet tugged at the reins with both hands and pulled the mare

almost on to her haunches; her hoofs shrieked on the iron road; she stood

still and snorted, her forelegs well out, her hide s

When he had made quite sure that the animal's attitude was that of