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So you may, Sir; and have the fowling of them yourselfe. Un. Let me see: A leading staff Tho. A leaden staffe Un. A lead'ing staffe. Tho. ding staffe. Why, a Cane is a leading staffe in a Captaines hand. Un. But I must have tassells, Thomas, and such things. Tho. At the harnesse of the Carthorses there are tassells and Bells, too, if you will. Un. Bells? What should I doe with em? Tho.
Below in the wide, shallow pools, all the stock had taken refuge carthorses and cows, sheep and pigs, all huddled together, wild-eyed and panting, but safe. They stared up at Wally, dumbly bewildered. "Poor brutes," said Wally. "Well, you chose a good spot, anyhow. I say, what a jolly good thing Bob let his pigs out. Poor old chap he's not broke yet."
His father's head stableman can hardly crack his any better when he meets his sweetheart, bringing home the horses from watering at the river. Little Jean is lulled by no soft reveries. He never heeds the field flowers. The games he dreams of are stiff jobs of work. His thoughts dwell on wagons stogged in the mire and big carthorses hauling at the collar at his voice and under his lash.
Two big carthorses, too, at the end of a long line, dragging a heavy wagon, turned short round and almost ran into us; also a very small donkey, driven by a little brown girl, showed symptoms of flight. I don't know the names of half the villages we passed through. Near Bagnoles we came to La Ferté-Macé, which looks quite imposing as one comes down upon it from the top of a long hill.
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