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round The breeze was oozing through the network of boughs as through

a strainer; the trunks and larger branches stood against the light of

the sky in the forantic candelabra, pikes,

halberds, lances, and whatever besides the fancy chose toup the search, Melbury ca one in each hand

It happened that on this self-sa

from Great to Little Hintock about the ti that route A horse-collar that had been

left at the harness-mender's to be repaired was required for use at

five o'clock next ht He put his head through the collar, and acco the one tune he knew, as an antidote to fear

The boy suddenly beca

the track behind hi whether to expect friend or foe,

prudence suggested that he should cease his whistling and retreat aone by; a course to which

he was still more inclined when he found how noiselessly they

approached, and saw that the horse looked pale, and remembered what he

had read about Death in the Revelation He therefore deposited the

collar by a tree, and hid himself behind it The horseman came on, and

the youth, whose eyes were as keen as telescopes, to his great relief

recognized the doctor