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'Captain Topsawyer was bad enough, and always pressed far too close on the hounds, but he would pull up at a check; but this rusty-booted 'bomination seems to think the hounds are kept for him to ride over. He must be got rid of somehow, repeated his lordship; 'for we shall have no peace while he's here. 'If he's after either of the Jawley girls, he'll be bad to shake off, observed Jack.
'Sir Harry's! exclaimed Mr. Sponge, again putting the horn to his lips, and blowing another shrill blast. 'Sir Harry's! screeched his lordship in disgust, for he hated the very sound of his name 'Sir Harry's! Oh, you rusty-booted ruffian! Tell me that to my very face! 'Sir Harry's! repeated Jack, again standing erect in his stirrups.
Jack! sing out! gasped his lordship again. 'Oh, you scandalous, hypocritical, rusty-booted, numb-handed son of a puffing corn-cutter, why don't you turn your attention to feeding hens, cultivating cabbages, or making pantaloons for small folk, instead of killing hounds in this wholesale way? roared Jack; an inquiry that set him foaming again.
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