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At first not a soul appeared who could enlighten hiht But presently a slight noise of

laboring wheels and the steady dig of a horse's shoe-tips became

audible; and there loomed in the notch of the hill and plantation that

the road forle

horse When it got nearer, he said, with some relief to himself, "'Tis

Mrs Dollery's--this will help ers, mostly women He held up his

stick at its approach, and the wo to find a short way to Little Hintock this last

half-hour, Mrs Dollery," he said "But though I've been to Great

Hintock and Hintock House half a dozen tie You can help me, I dare say?"

She assured him that she could--that as she went to Great Hintock her

van passed near it--that it was only up the lane that branched out of

the lane into which she was about to turn--just ahead "Though,"

continued Mrs Dollery, "'tis such a little sentleman, you'd need have a candle and lantern to find it if ye don't

knohere 'tis Bedad! I wouldn't live there if they'd pay me to

Now at Great Hintock you do see the world a bit"

He mounted and sat beside her, with his feet outside, where they were

ever and anon brushed over by the horse's tail

This van, driven and owned by Mrs Dollery, was rather a movable

attachment of the roadway than an extraneous object, to those who knew

it well The old horse, whose hair was of the roughness and color of

heather, whose leg-joints, shoulders, and hoofs were distorted by

harness and drudgery froht, sye of so here--had trodden this road almost