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Sparsfield's edification. "Aylsey Cross Bowford Cross Callindale Cross Huxter's Cross Jarnam Cross Kingborough Cross." "That's him!" cried my old friend suddenly. "Which?" I asked eagerly. "Huxter's Cross; I remember thinking at the time that it must be a place where they sold things, because of the name Huxter, you see, pronounced just the same as if it was spelt with a cks instead of an x.
Certainly the Miss Cradocks suffered no affront in the lines retained, wherein the young poet affirms that of all the famed nymphs of Sarum, that favoured city, "Whose Nymphs excel all Beauty's Flowers, As thy high Steeple doth all Towers" the 'C cks' were the best and fairest. Nay, has not great Jove himself apportioned a 'celestial Dower' to these most favoured of maidens,
The waggoners on the road stopped their wains, the late noisy ploughmen leaned vacantly on their stilts, the turnip-pullers stood erect in air, and the shepherds' boys deserted the bleating flocks; all was life and joy and liberty 'Liberty, equality, and foxhunt-ity! 'Yo i cks, wind him!
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