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'Father didn't seem to like it at first, but he brought him round bit by bit said he knew a squatter in Queensland he could pass him on to; that they'd keep him there for a year and get a crop of foals by him, and when the "derry" was off he'd take him over himself. 'But how's he going to nail him? People say Windhall keeps him locked up at night, and his box is close to his house.
Don't you remember the imported entire that they had his picture in the papers him that Mr. Windhall gave 2000 Pounds for? 'What! the Marquis of Lorne? Why, you don't mean to say they're going for him? 'By George, I do! says Jim; 'and they'll have him here, and twenty blood mares to put to him, before September. 'They're all gone mad they'll raise the country on us.
We even fed him for a week on prairie grass, just like the Marquis had been eating. Bless you, we knew how to work all that. We deceived Windhall his own self, and he thinks he's pretty smart. No! the Marquis is all safe you know where. I opened my eyes and stared at father. 'You've some call to crow if you can work things like that.
It was Ogden who introduced tobacco-chewing into the school, with fearful effects one Saturday night on the aristocratic interiors of Lords Gartridge and Windhall and Honourables Edwin Bellamy and Hildebrand Kyne. It was the ingenious gambling-game imported by Ogden which was rapidly undermining the moral sense of twenty-four innocent English boys when it was pounced upon by Glossop.
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